There's a lot more to the asteroid belt than meets the eye—and some of the things you may have thought you knew may be ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union explored ideas so extreme they border on science fiction—including using asteroids as ...

In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

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

A new study shows that the event that wiped out the dinosaurs caused only a small drop in shark and ray species at the same ...

My friend Larry Lebofsky has been studying asteroids since we first met as students, more than 50 years ago. Now approaching 80 years old, he still spends a ...