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 ...

NASA scientists warn that nearly 15,000 “city-killer” asteroids may remain undetected due to telescope blind spots. While missions like DART proved deflection is possible, no ready-to-launch defense ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has made an unusual observation of comet 3I/ATLAS in a “test case” for future planetary defense efforts. Using data collected from a Mars-orbiting satellite, ...

Space agencies around the globe have launched an unprecedented wave of planetary defense exercises, all centered on a mysterious interstellar visitor that refuses to behave like anything scientists ...

The Panel on Giant Planet Systems 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 ...