Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

NASA could soon trial a new defence strategy to prevent a giant asteroid hurtling towards the Moon and posing a huge risk to astronauts. It comes after NASA intentionally used a spacecraft to bump ...

New findings involving NASA researchers indicate that humanity may have to consider far more drastic measures to shield itself from potential cosmic dangers, including the deployment of nuclear ...

In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

NASA is investing significant resources into asteroid defence, but its new protective system could have unintended ...

Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...

New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...

The top US trade official also said that India is coming to the negotiating table, referring to the social media exchange ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

Using insights from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), researchers have developed a tool that would reveal future ...

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...