But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...
A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not dominated by water ice.
A series of radar images taken by Nasa has revealed that a large asteroid which zoomed past Earth last week was actually two ...
Earth captures second moon for a few weeks Asteroid 2024 PT5 part of the Arjuna asteroid belt Asteroid 2024 PT5 will not be ...
A new study sheds light on the birthplace of asteroid Ryugu, which is now believed to have formed near Jupiter.
The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...
According to experiments and computer simulations, the radiation of a nuclear blast could be enough to change the trajectory ...
A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...
It’s a bad month for any malicious asteroids out there. On Sept. 4, an observer at the Catalina Sky Survey spotted an ...