Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

Estimating the mass of a potentially dangerous asteroid remains a key parameter for planetary protection, but traditional ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

Opinion: When war is preached as a moral mission, the line between fighting extremism and reproducing it begins to disappear.

How do you stop a mid-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth? NASA planetary defence officer, Kelly Fast, says small space rocks hit earth regularly, but bigger rocks, of at least 140m in diameter, ...

CesiumAstro Inc., a global provider of space and defense communications systems and satellites, today announced the ...

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Tardigrades, commonly known as water bears, may be better suited by a new name: Tardiguardians of the Galaxy. Unlike the ...

There have been around 945 episodes of Star Trek, spread across more than a dozen shows, aired over sixty years. Yet for all the times Starfleet crew members have probed the intricacies of alien civil ...

A new study shows how simulated Mars dust affects tardigrades, offering insight into space farming and contamination risks.

A growing chorus of technologists and futurists now argue that scarcity is ending. The future may be post-old-scarcity but it ...