NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office sounds like something out of a disaster movie, but its work is far more methodical than cinematic. Instead of scrambling at the last minute, the office ...

This is your routine near-Earth object flying past Earth, and this is exactly what the case is. 2003 LN6 is being observed by NASA ahead of its approach on June 18, when the space rock is going to fly ...

Artist's illustration of NASA's DART asteroid-smashing spacecraft in the Didymos binary system. . | Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Scientists analyzing images from NASA's Double Asteroid ...

NASA astronomers are studying interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, shown here in a YouTube about its path across the solar system. It has reportedly released a sudden burst of energy and strange emissions as ...

It’s a practice run for armageddon. With 3I/ATLAS days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies worldwide are conducting the largest and most extensive planetary defense drill — with ...

Dinosaurs didn’t see the asteroid coming that ended their 180-million year reign on the Earth, but humans had more luck ...

HOUSTON—The NASA-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission continues to furnish data supporting work on strategies for diverting the course of large asteroids that could impact Earth, a ...

Is our planetary defense lousy? The imminent Earth Impactor CERNQ52 crashed near Australia yesterday, and NASA explained why ...

A spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch. The DART mission, or NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT on November 23 aboard a ...

CERNQ52, a diminutive asteroid, streaked into Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, detected by astronomers merely hours ...

In 2016, NASA consolidated several programs into the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), designed to work with other federal agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The ...