Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...
Our descendants will — at some time in the future — almost certainly need to deflect an asteroid. Though there is no known ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has once again captured the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts alike, delivering ...
A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...
According to experiments and computer simulations, the radiation of a nuclear blast could be enough to change the trajectory ...
Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...
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 ...
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.
Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, may hold a substantial amount of water ice beneath its surface, like an ...