NASA’s Planetary Defenders Head to the Sundance Film Festival
Trailer for NASA’s upcoming documentary, “Planetary Defenders,” which will take audiences inside the high-stakes world of asteroid hunting and planetary defense. NASA is bringing the...
Category : Planetary Defense Coordination Office
NASA, Partners Conduct Fifth Asteroid Impact Exercise, Release Summary
Representatives from NASA, FEMA, and the planetary defense community participate in the 5th Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise to inform and assess our ability as...
NASA to Discuss Outcome of 5th Biennial Asteroid Threat Exercise
Representatives from NASA, FEMA, and the planetary defense community participate in the fifth Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise on April 2 and 3, 2024, to...
Save the Date: Apophis 2029 Innovation (A29I) Listening Workshop
3 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) These images of asteroid Apophis were recorded in March 2021 by radio antennas at...
DART Team Earns Smithsonian Michael Collins Trophy for Successful Planetary Defense Test Mission
3 min read DART Team Earns Smithsonian Michael Collins Trophy for Successful Planetary Defense Test Mission Eric Long, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum NASA’s...
Near-Earth Asteroids as of August 31, 2023
1 min read Near-Earth Asteroids as of August 31, 2023 Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun like the planets with...
Near-Earth Asteroids as of September 2023
1 min read Near-Earth Asteroids as of September 2023 September 2023 Near-Earth Asteroids: Planetary Defense by the Numbers – February 2023 Each month, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office releases a...
