The "NEO Hunter" mission would use Blue Origin's Blue Ring spacecraft to deflect space rocks. This plan builds on NASA's successful DART mission, which proved an asteroid's path could be altered.

We could deflect potentially hazardous asteroids by using an enormous magnet to gently pull them apart. This idea avoids some of the pitfalls of the more traditional kinetic impactor method, which ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The space rock—known as "2026 FB4"— is about 29 feet across and is set to make its closest approach to Earth tomorrow at ...

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In the story of the Trojan War, Patroclus was a Greek warrior, killed in battle by the Trojan prince Hector, who was killed in turn by Patroclus’s vengeful friend Achilles. But Patroclus is also the ...

Odin was dying in the dark. The angular 265-pound spacecraft with solar panel wings, giving it the appearance of a cyberpunk angel, was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on February 26, 2025. It ...

The defense of our planet from potentially civilization-ending asteroids will soon rely on a new partnership between NASA and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, with the launch of a high-tech 'Blue Ring' to ...

Five asteroids, including one the size of a house, will approach Earth within the next two days. On Wednesday, March 25, the asteroids, the size of a car, an airplane, and two more the size of buses, ...

Asteroids are leftover pieces from the formation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. In the beginning, everything was a massive cloud of gas and dust. Gravity pulled this material ...