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Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...
Three Tucson scientists are featured in "Planetary Defenders," a new NASA documentary that premieres Wednesday about the ...
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.
YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...
A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and several years ago he saw something he couldn’t explain. Farnocchia works at ...
Last week, reports started making rounds online about how the Trump administration could cut NASA's science budget for the upcoming fiscal year by almost half. Such a decision could lead to the ...
A new study shows how the Sun and Earth's atmosphere destroy life-bearing meteoroids before they reach the planet.
The U.S. is in the midst of a second Space Race, and NASA is in a time crunch. How can it keep ambitions for the Moon and ...
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has selected Dave Van Wie as its next director. Van Wie will replace Ralph Semmel, ...