Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Heather Wishart-Smith is a board director who covers innovation. Planetary health is an emerging field that seeks to harmonize ...
Seven million miles from Earth, a NASA spacecraft crashed head on into a tiny asteroid Monday at a mind-boggling 14,000 mph, the first real-world test of humanity's ability to nudge a threatening body ...
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has recently drawn significant global attention, sparking both fascination and debate among scientists and the general public. As it travels through our Solar System, a ...
China has selected a small, near-Earth asteroid as the target for an upcoming mission that will help it prepare against future threats of incoming space rocks. The mission is targeting asteroid 2019 ...
It was a cosmic smash-up watched around the world. A NASA spacecraft on Monday intentionally slammed into an asteroid in a historic test of humanity’s ability to protect Earth from a potentially ...
There are few cosmological concepts which have gripped the public — and Hollywood — more tightly than the idea of an incoming asteroid. Huge chunks of rock headed for Earth with the potential to ...