She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

“What keeps me up at night is the asteroids we don’t know about," said NASA's planetary defense chief.

In 2016, NASA consolidated several programs into the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), designed to work with other federal agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The ...

NASA experts are raising alarms about the growing threat posed bynear-Earth asteroids, with some of these objects having the ...

To help guide NASA’s efforts over the next decade, the agency today released its Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan. For three decades, NASA has engaged in studying near-Earth objects (NEOs), ...

NASA's head of planetary defence, Dr Kelly Fast, has issued an unsettling update on thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids that could hit Earth.

This article was originally featured on Undark. On a fall evening in 2022, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory were busy with the final stages of a planetary defense ...

An agreement between NASA and the U.S. Space Force recently authorized the public release of decades of data collected by U.S. government sensors on fireball events (large bright meteors also known as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. On June 30, 1908, an asteroid about 65 meters wide collided with Earth’s ...

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With the increasing presence of space debris and the potential risk posed by near-Earth objects (NEOs) colliding with Earth, it is important to understand ongoing and future coordination efforts for ...