Some scientists claim they have found bits of dinosaur meat still clinging to the fossilized bones of ancient dinosaurs. I wish it were true, but the evidence says otherwise.

Researchers at US-based Sandia National Laboratories have conducted a new experiment to test the feasibility of using nuclear weapons to deflect asteroids.

The old joke about the dinosaurs going extinct because they didn't have a space program may be overselling the need for one.

Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...

The German Aerospace Center and European Space Agency opened the new LUNA Analog Facility.

Scientists have found nuclear weapons could actually help deflect an incoming cosmic impact — not by blowing an asteroid up, ...

Asteroids can devastate the planet in an instant – just ask the dinosaurs. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have ...

Roy Keane says Arsenal's tactics against Manchester City reminded him of supposed football "dinosaurs" Tony Pulis and Sam Allardyce. The Gunners on Sunday were reduced to 10 men on the stroke of ...

US scientists have demonstrated that potentially dangerous asteroids destined for Earth could be deflected from their ...

Scientists in New Mexico conducted several experiments and learned that asteroids can be deflected from Earth using explosions of nuclear warheads above the space rock's surface.

Nuclear devices generate massive amounts of X-rays. A new experiment suggests that might be enough to divert a killer ...