But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling toward Earth in the future, according to scientists who tested the theory in the laboratory by blasting ...
Eager to not meet a similar fate, the National Academy of Sciences has called for planetary defense to be a national priority ...
We've learned more about the composition of asteroids in the last few years than in the prior few decades. Missions like ...
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have made significant strides in understanding how nuclear explosions could be ...
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...
A powerful burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion could be used to stop Armageddon just in the nick of time, a new ...
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...
When the roughly 10-kilometre wide Chicxulub asteroid struck the Yucatan peninsula around 66 million years ago, it is ...
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...
The old joke about the dinosaurs going extinct because they didn't have a space program may be overselling the need for one.