NASA plans to blast “planet killer” asteroids with a 1,000-strong army of spacecraft – or even a nuke. The space agency ...

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

The space rock, named 2016 JG38, after the year it was discovered, is classed by the US space agency as a "Near Earth Object" ...

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

NASA is closely monitoring an asteroid thought to be up to the size of Big Ben as it "skims" past the Earth later today. The space rock, named 2016 JG38, after the year it was discovered ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A ...

NASA is developing plans to defend Earth against potential "planet killer" asteroids by considering launching a large fleet of spacecraft or even using a nuclear device to deflect ...

The tides we experience in all bodies of water on earth are caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun. At the Bay ...