Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact simulation suggests that a nuclear option could be a viable last resort to avert an ...
Planetary defense has moved from science fiction to a live engineering problem, and the stakes could not be higher. The central question is no longer whether an asteroid will eventually head our way, ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – A comet spanning roughly ...
Scientists have simulated the formation of a giant crater on Asteroid 16 Psyche to predict what the space rock looks like on ...
An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. Credit: ATLAS / NASA An asteroid discovered late last year is expected to be in our ...
A new study appears to have found evidence of a binary pair of asteroids transferring material to each other, the first direct evidence of such events. If you aren't too hot on asteroids, you might ...