Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb highlights 3I/ATLAS' baffling sunward jet after a 16° gravitational twist, defying known ...

“We succeeded in deflecting an asteroid, moving it from its orbit.” These are the words of Tony Farnham, author of the just-released analysis of the DART mission. They ring with a victory in planetary ...

How does a planetary defense mission intended to push an asteroid off course manage to release a torrent of boulders with the same momentum as the spacecraft? NASA’s groundbreaking experiment, the ...

NASA is moving forward with a plan to develop a refrigerator-sized spacecraft capable of deflecting asteroids and preventing them from colliding with Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or ...