The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as ...

Since Earth has survived for over 4.5 billion years, why should we consider any need to protect Earth now—assuming we can? She has survived cosmic forces, meteor impacts, volcanic eruptions, ice ages, ...

Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a football stadium is barreling toward Earth. Your coffee goes cold. Your ...

For millennia humans have been inspired by the stars but this may soon be a thing of the past due to a significant increase in the numbers of satellites, potentially limiting our view of the night sky ...

"In my opinion, planetary defense is an operational mission which should be formally tasked to U.S. Space Command." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A small asteroid careened toward Earth before burning up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky witnessed across the region. The space rock, which was ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. An infant is totally dependent on the constant care that parents provide. Imagine if, as the child grows ...

Jaxon Mercer, Rachel Starr and Alonso Prieto plant a tree as they join with Salt Lake City Department of Public Lands and other community volunteers for a combined Earth Day and Arbor Day celebration ...