For the first time, humanity has proved it can deliberately shove a small world off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid ...
The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...
Bill Nye let a packed crowd at the Orange Convention Center know that it’s not a good idea to send a human on a one-way trip ...
Explore Earth's cutting-edge defenses against asteroid impacts in this comprehensive overview. Learn how NASA and ESA are ...
The world’s first full-scale planetary defense test is in motion. The mission is called DART and what scientists learn from it could save humankind from a future catastrophic event. Nancy Chabot is a ...
NASA released Sept. 21 an image of Neptune taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing storms in the planet's atmosphere and its ring system. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI HELSINKI — Scientists ...
Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus. By stitching 437 images together, scientists tracked daily thermal tides ...
The Committee on Planetary Protection (CoPP) monitors progress implementing the planetary protection guidelines associated with priority programs and missions identified in the National Academies ...