What Does NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office Do?

NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office is responsible for finding and tracking potentially dangerous asteroids before ...
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Asteroid 99942 Apophis won't impact Earth for at least a century, NASA finds

PHILADELPHIA -- An asteroid named for the Egyptian god of chaos and darkness won't be wreaking any havoc on Earth -- at least not this century. That's the good news from NASA's Center for Near-Earth ...

The students who developed a plan to stop Armageddon

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...
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Scientists Calculate Odds of City-Killer-Size Asteroid Hitting Earth

An asteroid is the most likely reason the dinosaurs went extinct—but could something similar happen to us? A new study has compared the likelihood of a devastating asteroid impact to other causes of ...