On for one night only, this IMAX documentary highlights the high-stakes effort by global space experts to protect the planet.

Millions of people could die. Fortunately for all 8 billion of us, planetary defense—the science of preventing asteroid impacts—is a highly active field of research. Astronomers are watching ...

NASA’s planetary defense test, dubbed “Double Asteroid Redirection Test,” or DART, was geared toward discovering whether officials on Earth could successfully derail a dangerous asteroid ...

A group of 42 Democratic lawmakers wants the Pentagon’s watchdog to look into billionaire Elon Musk’s role in the contracting ...

Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an asteroid or comet. He led the establishment of the Planetary Defense ...

In 2014, in the wake of the Chelyabinsk meteor, the United Nations brought greater focus to asteroid threats and planetary defense by sanctioning “International Asteroid Day” on June 30 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA has funded a second phase of several key futuristic projects, including an on ...

It will stop tracking just before the asteroid is nearest, when it’ll have to shield its instruments due to the position of the sun to prevent damaging them. The spacecraft previously visited a ...

TASS/. Joint asteroid defense will improve cooperation between states and facilitate technology development, head of Russia’s Roscosmos State Space Corporation Dmitry Rogozin stated on Wednesday.

"If you were sitting on the asteroid watching the Lucy spacecraft approaching, you would have to shield your eyes staring at the sun while waiting for Lucy to emerge from the glare. After Lucy ...