"In my opinion, planetary defense is an operational mission which should be formally tasked to U.S. Space Command." ...

Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into ...

Heliostats that harness sunlight by day could help detect asteroids by night, offering the U.S. a scalable planetary defense ...

"It could represent some of the oldest and most pristine water ever observed, formed in another planetary system and ...

Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA has reported that two large asteroids, 2025 OU1 and 2025 OX, will approach Earth on July 26, 2025. Asteroid 2025 OU1, ...

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it’s the only one we have, NASA Administrator Bill ...

The team of physicists from The University of Arizona say they were motivated by the possibility of Compact Ultradense ...

California, Colorado, and Oregon ranked among the best states for witnessing the celestial phenomena, according to a recent study.

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first real-world test of a bold planetary defense idea: Could a spacecraft push an ...