Planetary Defense
Success! DART Impact Shortened Asteroid’s Orbit Time by 32 Minutes
NASA says its DART spacecraft caused a larger-than-expected change in the path of its target asteroid when they collided two…
LICIACube Sends Home Images of the DART Impact and the Damage to Dimorphos
The Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) has returned a series of close-up images of the asteroid Dimorphos,…
China is Building an Asteroid Deflection Mission of its own, due for Launch in 2025
There's an old joke that the dinosaurs are only extinct because they didn't develop a space agency. The implication, of…
Space Force is Releasing Decades of Tracking Data on a Thousand Bright Meteor Fireballs
When a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere at a very high speed it heats up. This heating up produces a…
Last-Minute Defense Against an Asteroid That Could Obliterate it Before Impact
Gazing at the night sky can evoke a sense of wonder regarding humanity's place in the Universe. But that's not…
You Can Blow Up an Asteroid Just a few Months Before it Hits Earth and Prevent 99% of the Damage
So far, the battle between life on Earth and asteroids has been completely one-sided. But not for long. Soon, we'll…
If you Want to Move an Asteroid, you Need the Right Kind of Nuclear Explosion
A new collaborative study has shown that nuclear explosions could be used to deflect asteroids, protecting Earth from cataclysmic impacts.
Europe and US are Going to Try and Deflect an Asteroid
The ESA and NASA are getting closer to mounting the AIDA mission, which will will test the effectiveness of asteroid…
Finding Aliens May Be Even Easier Than Previously Thought
Thanks to breakthroughs like Breakthrough Starshot, it may be easier to find extra-terrestrial intelligence, by looking for signs of laser…
NASA’s KaBOOM Experimental Asteroid Radar Aims to Thwart Earth’s Kaboom
Over the past month, about a half dozen rather large asteroids have careened nearby our home planet and in one…