The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

NASA successfully altered an asteroid’s orbit using a kinetic impact test, marking a breakthrough in planetary defense. Upcoming missions from ESA, JAXA, and NASA aim to study asteroids, Mars’ moons, ...

Starting in Fiscal 2028 – after NEO Surveyor’s planned launch – NASA’s planetary defense spending under Trump’s plan would fall from $346.7 million to $81 million.

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A comprehensive plan to address planetary defense must include two elements, said Ed Lu, a former NASA astronaut who co-founded the B612 Foundation to protect Earth from asteroid impacts.

The asteroid, dubbed 2002 JX8, makes close approaches to both Earth and Venus relatively often, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech in California.

On Feb. 24, NASA announced an official "all clear" on social media, reporting the impact probability had dropped to just 0.004% and that the asteroid is "expected to safely pass by Earth in 2032 ...

June 19 (UPI) --NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.According to the newest data collected, NASA's Center for Near ...

An asteroid about the length of three football fields is due to pass closely – but safely – by Earth in just a few hours.. The gigantic space rock, which NASA compares to the size of a stadium ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, initially considered a potential threat to Earth, is now more likely to hit the moon in 2032. The asteroid, about the size of a 10-story building, has a 4.3% chance of lunar ...