A spacecraft headed for deep space has a different level of risk than one headed for the surface of a planet. The goal of ...

This breakthrough is especially timely, as NASA’s Catalina Sky Survey identifies around 2,000 near-Earth asteroids annually.

Earth has natural protection - like the kind that help form aurora - but Nasa is hiring its own Nasa is seeking a new "planetary protection officer" tasked with defending the earth from alien life.

By Deborah Asantewaah SARFO World Vision Ghana has urged the Christian community to participate and take practical steps to ...

Dart project manager Ed Reynolds told a news conference on Monday that the pair of asteroids, which are about 6.8m miles from Earth, provide the “perfect environment to test this methodology”.

The "Mother Earth" climate protection campaign sparked a wave of enthusiasm for environmentally friendly action. Numerous ...

Spanish scientists have found a method to make it significantly easier to detect space rocks heading on a collision course towards Earth by calculating the gravitational bending of light to ...

But as Earth heats up, they are not able to do their job as effectively. As CNA's Rani Samtani reports, one research ship is on a mission to find out how to protect this vital resource.

India's Aditya-L1 solar mission has achieved its first major result, providing data that could protect Earth's infrastructure from future solar activity. On July 16th, the mission's Visible ...