Scientists in China say a nuclear explosion could be the most effective way to stop a large asteroid—and they may have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

(AP) - Reports of an explosion from people across New England on Saturday afternoon sent police agencies and others scrambling to understand what caused a double boom that shook buildings in ...