But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...
A series of radar images taken by Nasa has revealed that a large asteroid which zoomed past Earth last week was actually two ...
Philip Metzger, a planetary physicist at the University of Central Florida, explained that the primary difference between ...
Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...
A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...
The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...
A recent study suggests that the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, particularly the dwarf planet Ceres, may contain ...
New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...