In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

On Feb. 8, 1969, a massive meteorite rained a couple of tons of stones on the Mexican town of Allende, not far from the Texas ...

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is behind the sun from Earth's point of view in space — scientists began planning ...

Orient Star continues its 75th-anniversary celebrations with this more literal interpretation of the brand's meteor ...

A new study has revealed that the iconic Black Beauty meteorite contains much more hidden water than previously suspected. The rock, which fell to Earth from Mars, could reveal clues about the Red ...

In geology terms, a clast is just a word for a small rock fragment stuck inside a bigger rock. Finding clasts isn't ...

Planetary defence research often sits between modelling and imagination, with few chances to test real materials under realistic conditions. A new stu.

New tools unlock new discoveries in science. So when a new type of non-destructive technology becomes widely available, it's ...

Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster ...

"The world must be able to execute a nuclear deflection mission with high confidence, yet cannot conduct a real-world test in ...

Ariana Church made the extraordinary find with her seven-year-old sister, Leyla, mother Hayley, 39, and grandmother Marion, ...

A nine-year-old on a beach found a meteorite 4.5 billion years old – older than Earth itself. Ariana Church made the ...