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Was Bruce Willis right? Could a nuclear blast save us from killer asteroid?
Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.
Asteroid Apophis' path near Earth in 2029 offers rare lessons in defending planet
Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...
ESA's Hera spacecraft to probe asteroid deflected by defence test
Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...
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Belfast astronomer to take part in ESA asteroid mission
Prof Alan Fitzsimons is an astronomer from Queen’s University Belfast and has been assisting with the asteroid mission for ...
Hera spacecraft to probe asteroid deflected by defence test
Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...
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James Webb Telescope Spots Bizarre Object That's Spewing Out Jets of Gases
The gas-spewing body spotted by the James Webb is a type of object known as a centaur that is somewhere between a comet and ...
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How to see October's 'comet of the century' in Indiana before it disappears
Scientists a month later at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS ... which lies far beyond Pluto. NASA describes the Oort Cloud as giant spherical shell of icy space debris that ...
Is Earth destined for another extinction-level asteroid event? | The Excerpt
Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...
Five-mile asteroid impact crater below Atlantic captured in 'exquisite' detail by seismic data
New images of an asteroid impact crater buried deep below the floor of the Atlantic Ocean have been published today by ...
The ESA’s Hera mission takes flight toward the asteroid deflected by NASA’s DART probe two years ago
In 2022, a probe was sent crashing into an asteroid as part of a “planetary defence” test. This Monday, the second part of ...
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was not alone
The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago was not alone, scientists have confirmed. A ...
4 asteroids — including one plane sized and two house sized objects — to approach the Earth today, NASA warns: here’s all we know
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