In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Asteroids have significantly impacted Earth's history through numerous collisions, shaping the planet's geography and ...

Can a nuclear explosion REALLY destroy an asteroid? The science behind this popular myth will surprise you! Blue Origin launched its new Glenn rocket early Thursday, sending a test satellite into ...

Einstein Probe's Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) detected a burst of low-energy X-rays. Astronomers call such X-rays "soft," ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

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Security camera footage posted on the social media platform Sina Weibo captured the scene of two family members reacting to ...

we could stop an impact actually happening in the first place Professor Alan Fitzsimmons “You don’t destroy the asteroid, you explode it above the surface of the asteroid, and that vaporises ...