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ESA is Building an Early Warning System for Dangerous Asteroids

The European Space Agency is working on a new mission that would act as an early warning system for...

Should Planetary Defence Take Center Stage?

Throughout the Solar System, planets and moons bear the scars of a past fraught with collisions. The Moon,...

What Kind of an Impact did DART Have on Dimorphos? The Science Results are Here

On September 26th, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, the small moonlet that orbits the...

Asteroids Didn’t Create the Moon’s Largest Craters. Left-Over Planetesimals Did

The Moon’s pock-marked surface tells the story of its history. It’s marked by over 9,000 impact craters, according...

This Interactive Tool Lets you Simulate Asteroid Impacts Anywhere on Earth

Asteroid impacts rank highest on the UN’s list of potentially species-ending calamities. They’ve been the subject of countless...

Astronomers Spotted a Tiny Asteroid A Few Hours Before it Impacted the Earth, and Predicted Exactly Where and When it Would Crash

Humanity is getting better a planetary defense. At least from external threats from outer space. As long...

Mars Once had Enough Water for a Planet-Wide Ocean 300 Meters Deep

Today, Mars is colloquially known as the “Red Planet” on a count of how its dry, dusty landscape is...

What Would Asteroid Mining do to the World’s Economy?

About a decade ago, the prospect of “asteroid mining” saw a massive surge in interest. This was due...

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