The next 10 years are poised to be the most transformative decade yet in the space industry. A 2024 World Economic Forum ...

The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs was unimaginably powerful. Its impact reshaped the planet in an instant. Debris ...

Across Earth, every night, thousands of automated stargazers are waiting to take pictures of shooting stars. I am one of the ...

A rare stargazing spectacle will unfold on Friday, April 13, 2029, as the asteroid Apophis passes closer than satellites over ...

Spread the loveOn April 9, 2026, NASA successfully tracked a house-sized asteroid known as 2026 GD, which made a close approach to Earth, passing at a distance of approximately 156,000 miles. This ...

Nasa is running a livestream providing continuous coverage of the Artemis II mission. The spacecraft has been pointed towards ...

Historically planetary defense research has focused on deflecting asteroids by using momentum to nudge their cosmic course away from Earth. That’s what NASA did with its Double Asteroid Redirection ...

Intentionally hitting an asteroid's moon allows for a lasting change in the primary asteroid's orbit around the Sun. This is one of the results from the experiment conducted by NASA's ...

Maini, of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, is primed and ready should a planetary strike occur – and just over 12 months ago, she thought it might ...

When we think of asteroids, we almost immediately think of giant rocks bouncing around like the iconic chase scene in "The Empire Strikes Back," and we often hear how they are remnants from the birth ...

Still from video captured by NWS Pittsburgh’s Jared Rackley via X. On a Saturday afternoon this past March, a piece of the solar system plummeted toward a home in north Houston. The one-ton space rock ...

The "NEO Hunter" mission would use Blue Origin's Blue Ring spacecraft to deflect space rocks. This plan builds on NASA's successful DART mission, which proved an asteroid's path could be altered.