Explore how the DART mission advanced planetary defense using kinetic impactor technology and impactor hardware to enable real-world asteroid deflection strategies.

Blue Origin is teaming up with NASA to protect Earth from any asteroids that could do our planet harm. Called the Near-Earth Object Hunter mission, or NEO Hunter, the concept would build on NASA's ...

Blue Origin is teaming up with NASA to thwart asteroids that may be on collision courses with Earth. Jeff Bezos' company has partnered with researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the ...

Ames, Iowa–An Asteroid Deflection Research Center (ADRC) has been established on the Iowa State campus to bring researchers from around the world to develop asteroid deflection technologies. The ...

Blue Origin has unveiled a plan to stop asteroids and other threats from beyond. Rock-a-bye, baby. With scientists warning that Earth could be susceptible to thousands of undetected asteroids, Jeff ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. On a fall evening in 2022, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory were busy with the final stages of a planetary defense ...

In December, astronomers identified that the asteroid YR4 had a small but not insignificant chance of striking Earth in 2032, a scenario that experts postulated could have more explosive potential ...

NASA is expanding its work with commercial space companies, including Blue Origin, as the agency advances efforts to find and track asteroids that could threaten Earth. Blue Origin’s current NASA work ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In the wake of NASA slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid, scientists ...