Scientists have suggested burying a nuclear bomb inside of an asteroid to help save us from destruction. That is the recommendation of a new study that examines the options we have if an asteroid is ...

Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of International Asteroid Day. In the decade since the United Nations established the ...

Here is a list of asteroids flagged to pose a threat to Earth in the future. One of them is visiting this decade, while ...

On June 30, 1908, an asteroid tore across the sky above a remote part of Siberia before erupting in a cataclysmic explosion.

Chinese scientists and engineers are conducting feasibility studies on developing a space-ground integrated monitoring and ...

If our country does not possess this technology, the price demanded by other nations to protect us could be very high.

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced on Tuesday that China will establish a coordinated ground- and space ...

A massive asteroid roughly 0.6 miles wide safely passed Earth on June 27, coming within about 1.5 million miles — still ...

This year’s Asteroid Day has planned events worldwide and online. It acts as a reminder about advances in planetary defense.

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...

A large asteroid does not need to hit Earth to expose a hard truth: the most dangerous space rocks may be the ones spotted ...

For over two decades, scientists argued about what really created a strange crater hidden beneath the North Sea. New evidence ...