If an asteroid was ever threatening Earth, the best way to stop it might be with a nuclear explosion, according to a new study published by Chinese scientists. But how exactly would this work?

Scientists in China say a nuclear explosion could be the most effective way to stop a large asteroid—and they may have identified the best strategy for making it work. A recent study published in ...

China is planning to crash a spacecraft into a near-Earth asteroid by 2030 as part of a major planetary defense experiment.

Scientists plan to bury into an asteroid and blow it up to save Earth - Nuclear bombs planted in space rocks could save us from destruction, researchers suggest ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – There’s no way of knowing how many meteorites struck the ground in and around Medina County on Tuesday ...

June 30, 2015, marked the first Asteroid Day, which organizers described as a “global awareness movement where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do to ...

A meteor streaking across the skies over the northeastern United States exploded with energy equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT on Saturday, according to NASA.

About 118 years ago, an asteroid struck Earth’s atmosphere and exploded over Tunguska, a sparsely populated location in central Siberia. On June 30, 1908, local residents watched a fireball whose ...

Between 2000 and 2013, 26 asteroids packing at least the energy of 1 kilotonne of TNT hit Earth or exploded in its atmosphere. That’s up to 10 times as many as you would expect from existing models of ...