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 ...

Experiment shows that, in a worst-case scenario, humanity could use a nuclear explosion to save the planet from a deadly ...

Asteroid will come close enough to Earth to temporarily enter its orbit at the end of the month, a phenomenon dubbed as "mini ...

A newly discovered asteroid, also referred to as a mini-moon or second moon, is set to enter Earth's orbit temporarily this ...

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

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

An asteroid is expected to swing by Earth and spend about two months orbiting the planet as it gets temporarily caught by ...

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

There are many theories on how to best handle a rare (but possible) cataclysmic asteroid collision with Earth. Effectively ...