When Charles visited the new Great Bay Coast Guard station, he saw the operations room where staff can monitor CCTV images of ...

Doomsday meteors get a bad rap. For decades, these poor rocks have been tarnished in the press and demonized in major Hollywood productions over the relatively limited number that have caused ...

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There could be a catastrophic threat lurking in space right now. We might not know until it’s too late. Near Earth, there are likely more than 25,000 asteroids large enough to level a city, according ...

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A model of the inner solar system shows asteroids discovered by the Rubin Observatory in light teal. Previously known asteroids are dark blue. The model highlights almost 12,700 asteroids that the ...

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 ...

We could deflect potentially hazardous asteroids by using an enormous magnet to gently pull them apart. This idea avoids some of the pitfalls of the more traditional kinetic impactor method, which ...

Five asteroids, including one the size of a house, will approach Earth within the next two days. On Wednesday, March 25, the asteroids, the size of a car, an airplane, and two more the size of buses, ...

With scientists warning that Earth could be susceptible to thousands of undetected asteroids, Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is developing a planetary defense program that could help protect us ...