The European Space Agency is preparing to launch its first planetary defense mission:: File:: 'Hera' will assess a small moon ...

Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...

However, NASA has also addressed the potential scenario after investigating the asteroid last year ... "Although Apophis will not hit Earth during this encounter or in the foreseeable future ...

The first asteroid, named 2024 SD3, measures approximately 68 feet—comparable to the size of a small airplane. It is expected to pass Earth at a distance of about 1,490,000 kilometers at 9:19 PM ...

Scientists in New Mexico conducted several experiments and learned that asteroids can be deflected from Earth using explosions of nuclear warheads above the space rock's surface.

About 66 million years ago, a "planet killer"—a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid—hit Earth. The Chicxulub impact caused a mass extinction on a planetary scale, killing off an estimated 76 percent of ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

To assess whether this technique could actually deflect an asteroid heading toward Earth, the team fed their experimental ...

Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

ASTEROIDS are constantly passing Earth - and every once in a while some make a direct hit. Fortunately, the latter are all too small to pose any serious threat and burn up in the atmosphere.

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