Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...
T here are a lot of reasons the early Earth was a biologically barren place. For one thing, its surface was molten; for another thing, it had no survivable atmosphere, with very l ...
A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...
A series of radar images taken by Nasa has revealed that a large asteroid which zoomed past Earth last week was actually two ...
Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...
The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, according to scientists who tested the theory in the laboratory by blasting ...
With an extremely short warning time, space agencies may opt to disrupt the asteroid: they would blow it to smithereens, fragmenting it into tiny pieces that would mostly miss Earth or burn up ...
A new study sheds light on the birthplace of asteroid Ryugu, which is now believed to have formed near Jupiter.