For the first time in its history, humanity is assembling a coordinated system to find, track, and deflect asteroids that could threaten life on Earth. The architecture involves a space-based infrared ...

For the first time, humanity has proved it can deliberately shove a small world off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, better known as DART, turned a one‑ton spacecraft into a guided ...

“What keeps me up at night is the asteroids we don’t know about," said NASA's planetary defense chief.

The Panel on Mars is one of six panels providing topical input to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey Steering Group. This panel will discuss the role played by focused studies of ...