Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

Initial observations of the asteroid relied on its reflected sunlight, and a small, shiny space rock can bounce back the same amount ... of the threat of asteroid strikes, nor have we ever been ...

“Heading back to the gate, but thankfully everyone is ok!” Roughly 80 people were on the plane to Charleston, and 71 for the flight to New York, according to American Airlines. The company ...

Shifting the burden of managing cyber emergencies to state and local governments while scaling back federal information ... and windstorms and asteroid strikes and wildfires and hurricanes ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon swoop past a small asteroid. It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in ...

Space agencies from the US, Europe and Japan are all making plans to visit the asteroid Apophis when it makes an extremely ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered sample. Retrieving this sample allowed scientists to examine the asteroid’s composition in detail.

On Friday, April 13, 2029, an asteroid will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a ...

NASA is working on a new space observatory, NEO Surveyor, the first spacecraft designed to assess the threats of asteroids well in advance. The mission launch date is expected to be in the fall of ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...