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

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

The Alinda asteroid will be visible with binoculars in a 'once in a decade' event as it brushes past Earth, with its return to the planet not expected until 2087 ...

Alinda, measuring 2.6 miles wide, will be visible this weekend. Stargazers can spot it using basic equipment or watch a ...

This asteroid, which measures between 65 to 147 feet in diameter, will zoom past our planet at a distance of 18 lakh kilometres. Moving at a brisk pace of 22,400 kilometres per hour, its closest ...

The asteroid is known as 2007 FT3 ... are taking advantage of new technology – like the tech that drives the DART test that NASA completed last year – to create ways to mitigate the chances ...

Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the early days of our solar system, orbiting the Sun much like planets. While most ...

Astronomy and shooting seem to have little in common. But two space missions since 2004 resemble skeet shooting, albeit on a ...

The National Academy of Sciences calls for planetary defense to be a priority, an effort supported by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which aims to test kinetic impact methods to ...

ForbesRare Asteroid Spotted Hours Before Impacting Earth ... but NASA and ESA are planning ahead with the DART and Hera missions. Scientists have discovered nearly 36,000 near-Earth asteroids ...