Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

The $330 million proof-of-concept mission, which was seven years in development, also represented the world's first test of a planetary defense system designed to prevent a potential doomsday ...

Its critical design review was completed a couple of months ago. They are in very good shape technically, hitting their development milestones. We've got the budget in hand to get it to launch in ...

While our asteroid detection systems are way ahead of our asteroid defense systems, there are some options, at least theoretically. Project Icarus had already figured it out back in the 1960s: ...

The proposed CROWN was a key part of the asteroid defense system, which was mainly responsible for observation and orientation, i.e., the detection and early warning of the PHAs and tracking and ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA plans to change an asteroid’s orbit. The large binary asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos currently pose no threat to Earth. But by crashing a 1,340-pound (610 ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will impact an asteroid 6.7 million miles from Earth to test techniques to redirect asteroids that might threaten us.

The spacecraft will be slamming into Dimorphos, a 160-meter chunk of rock orbiting Didymos, a larger asteroid measuring in at almost three-quarters of a kilometer.

Dimorphos is the smaller of a two-asteroid system, or binary, with Didymos being the largest. Before the DART mission, Dimorphos orbited Didymos once every 11 hours and 55 minutes.

MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. A planetary system for protection of the Earth from comet and asteroid threat may gain tangible shape in ten years, and technological basis for such system already exists ...

On Tuesday, NASA said there was a 3.1% chance that the asteroid would collide with Earth in 2032, up from earlier estimates of 2.3% and 1.2%. That is the highest probability any sizable space rock ...