Earth has got a new mini-moon for the next couple of days and it has fascinated people across social media. Albeit, it might ...

A series of radar images taken by Nasa has revealed that a large asteroid which zoomed past Earth last week was actually two ...

A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...

Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...

In the inner solar system—this side of Jupiter—the proximity of the sun causes both free-floating water and water entrained on bodies like asteroids to flash into vapor. Outside of that limit, water ...

The Deep Space Network’s Goldstone Solar System Radar near Barstow, California, captured a series of radar images of the near ...

With an extremely short warning time, space agencies may opt to disrupt the asteroid: they would blow it to smithereens, fragmenting it into tiny pieces that would mostly miss Earth or burn up ...

A new study sheds light on the birthplace of asteroid Ryugu, which is now believed to have formed near Jupiter.