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

Asteroids are ripe for mining. Some contain gold or platinum. Others could help make rocket fuel. When they're mini-moons, ...

A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.' ...

Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...

In a fascinating cosmic event, Earth has temporarily captured a mini-moon, an asteroid now caught in Earth's gravitational pull. Named 2024 PT5, this tiny space rock was first spotted by astronomers ...

A school-bus-sized asteroid is expected to spend about two months orbiting Earth as a "mini moon" as it gets temporarily ...

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

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

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

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 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 called Apophis. The asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth on Friday the 13th in April of 2029. That chance depends on it being hit by another asteroid or some other object in space at ...