"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...

In October, the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch “Hera ... As space agencies continue to enhance their asteroid defense systems, these missions mark a pivotal moment in humanity ...

It worked and marked a watershed moment in planetary defense. The European Space Agency just launched the Hera follow-up mission to see what’s shaking with the binary asteroid system.

Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the early days of our solar system, orbiting the Sun much like planets. While most ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

A Belfast-based astronomer has said a planetary defence mission with which he ... has recently returned from ground control of the European Space Agency (ESA) Hera mission at the European Space ...

Early Tuesday morning, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office ... according to The European Space Agency. Asteroid 2020 XR was discovered exactly four years ago, the ESA explains, though ...

Credit: European Defense Agency The European Union (EU) should look to its model of space cooperation to achieve greater success in defense collaborations, argues Andrius Kubilius, the first ...