New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes ...

SpaceX launches, NASA's Artemis II mission and a planetary collision are among the latest news updates in FLORIDA TODAY's 321 ...

China signals new target for 2027 asteroid deflection test China has identified a new target near-Earth asteroid for its first planetary defense kinetic test mission, which is scheduled to launch in ...

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s private space company, revealed plans to play a pivotal role in Earth’s defense against dangerous asteroids. The mission, named NEO Hunter, is a collaboration with NASA and ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission not only altered an asteroid’s orbit but, for the first time, a new study shows we also successfully changed the asteroids' path around the sun.

The world’s first full-scale planetary defense test is in motion. The mission is called DART and what scientists learn from it could save humankind from a future catastrophic event. Nancy Chabot is a ...

NASA’s planetary science program is still facing a funding shortfall that requires “strategic choices” about which missions to continue.

Suggested Citation: "4 Implications of Planetary Protection Category I Versus Category II for Small Body Missions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Planetary ...

Small bodies in the solar system have preserved information from different eras of the evolution of our solar system, from the composition of the presolar nebula that is preserved in cometary nuclei ...