Very bad stuff. But we’re not helpless anymore. Like a lot of cool things, the field of asteroid defense began with a bunch of kids at MIT with brainpower to spare. In 1967, MIT professor Paul ...

His co-author on a vanguard study outlining the potential to shield the globe ... come to the other orb’s defense if it is threatened by a Doomsday event like the asteroid strike that wiped ...

The year 2028 will be the next opportunity to observe the asteroid as it returns to an observable distance for Earth-based ...

The risk assessment kept climbing, and on Jan. 29, the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN), a global planetary defense collaboration, issued a memo. But according to the latest ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 50- to 90-meter-wide Earth ... President Trump’s revival of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which he dubs “Iron Dome for America.” It will be a multi-layered defense ...

China has launched a "planetary defense" initiative aimed at preventing a potentially dangerous asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, from colliding with Earth in 2032. China's State Administration of ...

"While this asteroid no longer poses a significant impact hazard to Earth, 2024 YR4 provided an invaluable opportunity for experts at NASA and its partner institutions to test planetary defense ...

“NASA analysis drops asteroid 2024 YR4's impact probability to 0.004%, meaning it is expected to safely pass by Earth in 2032,” NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office posted on X Monda ...

Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program, called for operational asteroid defense services and deeper international cooperation to protect the Earth, advocating for a global ...