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 ...

NASA’s decades-long watch on near-Earth space has revealed a landscape that is far more dynamic, and far more intricate, than early asteroid hunters imagined. Instead of a simple backdrop of rocks ...

Planetary defense efforts, formalized after the 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact, aim to catalog and track hazardous near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) capable of causing significant damage, with mandates ...

Asteroid 2022 RD2 is a near-Earth object that could become a temporary moon, then later a potential crash risk for the planet later this century. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Scientists ...