Asteroid Defense News Today

Americans are more interested in space defense against asteroids. Here's what a new survey revealed.

An asteroid, large enough to wipe out an entire city, passed between Earth and the Moon on March ...

NASA's DART mission may be a success, but does NASA have other ideas on how to protect Earth from asteroids?

NASA hosts a media briefing to discuss the results of the recent test of its DART planetary defense ...

Mission to land on the double asteroid is all set to happen in November. Dubbed as ‘mountain in the sky with another rock the size of the Great Pyramid swinging around it’, is first-ever mission involving the act of a team of astronauts landing on an asteroid to destroy it. ESA said in a statement said the mission will “revolutionise our understanding of asteroids and how to protect ourselves from them”. The heart-stopping mission has been called Hera.

While the Earth faces no such immediate danger, NASA plans to crash a spacecraft traveling at a speed of 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kph) into an asteroid next year in a test of "planetary defense."

The uncomfortable fact which too many commentators tend to run away from out of fear, ignorance or intellectual dishonesty, is that the world financial system is sitting on the verge of a global financial meltdown of a $1.2 quadrillion...

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:06 UTC As relations between the USA and Russia continue to fall ever deeper into the abyss, and as Chinas Belt and Road Initiative continues to evolve deep into the Eurasian Arctic via the Polar Silk Road, a new era of potential for cooperation as well as nuclear war awaits humanity. The decisions made over the coming months will determine which of those two opposing destinies are selected. For the time being, things are looking bad. On February 5, 2021 the Canadian press wa...

It doesnt seem that way, it is small and fragile. by the way, i serve on a board of the pentagon, the defense innovation board, but im not speaking for that board, nor, obviously, for the pentagon. by the way, there are future needs and concerns of what a space force would have to think about, such as asteroid defense, all right? thats a complete, space-based threat to the livelihood not only of a nation but of the world. and it may be that the cooperation of the world in space is to save civili...

Of the pentagon, the defense innovation board, but im not speaking for that board nor, obviously, for the pentagon. by the way, there are future needs and concerns of what a space force would have to think about, such as asteroid defense. thats a complete space-based threat to the livelihood, not only of the nation but of the world. and it may be that the cooperation of the world in space is to save civilization. and that could be the greatest force of peace there ever was. >> neil degrasse tyso...