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

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

Scientists have found nuclear weapons could actually help deflect an incoming cosmic impact — not by blowing an asteroid up, ...

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

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

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

Scientists in New Mexico conducted several experiments and learned that asteroids can be deflected from Earth using ...

A moonlet from the Arjuna asteroid belt is set to fall into Earth's orbit for 57 days. The school-bus-sized space rock won't ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.

Researchers at US-based Sandia National Laboratories have conducted a new experiment to test the feasibility of using nuclear weapons to deflect asteroids.

Researchers theorize X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to vaporize an asteroid's surface, altering its trajectory ...