According to the 2024 Living Planet Report released today by World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where I serve as chief scientist, ...

But X-rays could also save the future of mankind, according to researchers. A new study suggests that X-ray pulses could be used to deflect enormous asteroids on a collision course with Earth.

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it ... but the fact that its orbit around Earth is a flattened circle. That means there are times when the moon is closer ...

All in all, the experiments lasted around 20 millionths of a second. “For a one-nanometer fall, we can ignore Earth’s gravity for 20 millionths of a second as Z produces a burst of X-rays that ...

Here’s how it works. A nuclear bomb could save Earth from a catastrophic asteroid impact, according to a first-of-its-kind lab study. The new experiment, conducted using the world's most ...

A nuclear bomb might one day deflect an asteroid and save Earth from a disaster. Here’s how the lab simulation went: Before the asteroid could threaten the peaceful blue planet below ...

If we have fewer than about 10 years before impact, or that asteroid is large enough to devastate an entire country, then something like DART may not save us ... to prevent an Earth impact ...

In the movie, Bruce Willis and a plucky team of drillers save Earth from an asteroid 1,000 kilometers wide—roughly the size of Texas. For a proof-of-concept study published in the journal Nature ...

NASA/SDO A picture of the solar flare erupting from ... forth from the sun’s surface — which is slated to strike the Earth on Friday at around 4 p.m., according to Spaceweather.com.

The asteroid poses no threat to Earth. You'll probably only see the mini-moon in photos This mini-moon is nothing like our real moon. It's super mini. Forget about spotting it with your naked eye ...

NASA has turned off Voyager 2's plasma science instrument to conserve power, enabling the spacecraft to continue its mission ...

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...