In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...

An assistant carries a box of voting ballots during the opening plenary of the newly-elected European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Tuesday, July 16, 2024.

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A beloved Christmas tree tradition is returning to Manhattan for the holiday season next week. No, it’s not the towering ...

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...

NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is responsible for finding and tracking potentially dangerous asteroids before ...

We need an enhanced version of SUNSET to establish a space-based, combined discovery and early-warning system for NEOs (Near Earth Objects). If we use multiple satellites traveling ahead of Earth on ...

Opinion: The Army must leverage its existing contracts and challenge industry partners to develop, procure and deploy an ...

"With this data, the future path of the comet can also be determined much more precisely," Richard Moissl of ESA told ...

The bills passed as part of the deal that ended the longest U.S. government shutdown in history include billions of dollars ...