Nuclear devices generate massive amounts of X-rays. A new experiment suggests that might be enough to divert a killer ...

Earth has a new “mini- moon ” after an asteroid has joined our orbit. The object, known as 2024 PT5, has been chasing after ...

There's a new moon on the horizon. The Earth will gain a second, mini-moon on Sept. 29, but it won't stick around too long.

A school-bus-sized asteroid is expected to spend about two months orbiting Earth as a "mini moon" as it gets temporarily ...

New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...

A laboratory experiment conducted by an international team of researchers has confirmed that the X-rays emitted by a suitably ...

Exploding a nuclear bomb above a huge asteroid could vaporize its surface using X-rays, pushing the space rock away from ...

The OSIRIS-REx curation team is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for safeguarding pristine samples of an asteroid ...

A recent lab experiment suggests we could deflect an incoming asteroid by heating its surface and letting the jets of ...

The old joke about the dinosaurs going extinct because they didn't have a space program may be overselling the need for one.

Scientists in the US have concluded that dangerous asteroids could be redirected by detonating a nuclear warhead at a ...

The experiment recorded in nanosecond detail how a very large pulse of radiation from a nuclear blast could essentially ...