Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact simulation suggests that a nuclear option could be a viable last resort to avert an ...

Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster got one thing right - we really could nuke an asteroid if it were heading for ...

A student has unraveled a long-standing cosmic enigma concerning some of our solar system’s most peculiar objects: icy “snowmen” that populate its outer reaches, according to The Independent.

Researchers simulated how gravitational collapse forms two-lobed contact binaries in the Kuiper Belt without destructive collisions.

Astronomers who have debated why these globular icy objects look the way they do finally have an answer ...

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life ...

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged ...

Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from a European Space Agency orbiter on its way ...