Explore how the DART mission advanced planetary defense using kinetic impactor technology and impactor hardware to enable real-world asteroid deflection strategies.
A small object recently captured by Earth’s gravity may not be a natural satellite at all. According to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, the mysterious body, known as 2025 PN7, could be a lost piece ...
Earth has a new friend — and it’s been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the ...
At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...
An asteroid named 2026JH2 will swing by Earth on Monday, passing four times closer than our distance to the moon.