Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

A nuclear blast would also be effective at knocking smaller "city-killer" sized asteroids - 165ft wide - off course. What is most important with both methods is timing as spotting a deadly ...

Administrators announced on Monday that the agency is planning to launch a space telescope to watch for hazardous asteroids as part of its planetary defense strategy. The telescope will use ...

A small asteroid, designated 2024 RW1, was discovered just hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere and disintegrated over the Philippines. The object was detected by the Catalina Sky Survey in ...

Blasting into deep space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Hera will seek to gather new data and insights about how to deflect asteroids which may be bound for Earth and will showcase a raft of new ...

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

DART's ultimate goal is to gain information on how space organizations can defend Earth from deadly asteroids hurtling towards us in the future. "The Earth is hit by asteroids and pieces of ...

The mission aims to see if Earth can defend against potential deadly space rocks, but results won't be available until 2026.

This time Tudur's on a quest to discover the truth about politics and protest in Wales. It's a story of deadly asteroids, MPs on Segways, and a brand new party for the undecided, full of lively ...

Blasting into deep space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, Hera will seek to gather new data and insights about how to deflect asteroids which may be bound for Earth and will showcase a raft of new ...