NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

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Learn about the latest update on asteroid 2024 YR4, which now has a 3.8 percent chance to impact the Moon.

The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city, or ...

NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, offering a fascinating look at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting Earth from any large asteroids discovered coming our way.

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YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

Space.com: The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is now en route to perform late next year a look-see of the asteroid Dimorphos and its orbiting moonlet Didymos. NASA's DART mission in 2022 ...