Blue Origin has developed an asteroid deflection mission concept based on its Blue Ring Platform. The spacecraft can attempt ...

Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a football stadium is barreling toward Earth. Your coffee goes cold. Your ...

Humanity needs to step up its asteroid-hunting game. To date, astronomers have spotted more than 8,000 near-Earth asteroids that are at least 460 feet (140 meters) wide — big enough to wipe out an ...

From high-speed battering rams to gravity tractors, the technology exists to protect the planet. The question is whether ...

Here’s the good news: If a near-Earth object (NEO) big enough to wipe out humanity entirely is ever on a collision course with our planet, we’re likely to find out about it a good while before it ...

NASA and other space agencies track thousands of near-Earth objects like this one. There are more than 41,000 known near-Earth asteroids that come relatively close to Earth’s orbit, and scientists are ...