Nuking a huge asteroid could save Earth, lab experiment suggests
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...
Radiation should be able to deflect asteroids as large as 4 km across
The old joke about the dinosaurs going extinct because they didn't have a space program may be overselling the need for one.
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Nuking a huge asteroid could save Earth, study suggests
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...
N-Bomb Can Deflect Life-Threatening Asteroid Hurtling Towards Earth In Future
Humanity could use a nuclear bomb to deflect a massive, life-threatening asteroid hurtling towards Earth in the future, ...
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We Might Be Able to Nuke Asteroids to Save Earth After All
We've learned more about the composition of asteroids in the last few years than in the prior few decades. Missions like ...
Nuking a huge asteroid could save earth from extinction-level impact
When the roughly 10-kilometre wide Chicxulub asteroid struck the Yucatan peninsula around 66 million years ago, it is ...
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Nuclear bombs really could deflect asteroids, lab tests suggest
An experiment with powerful pulses of energy sent test targets flying in a step forward for planetary defense.
Can X-rays, used for broken bones, be NASA's secret weapon to help save Earth from killer asteroids? Here's what scientists say
Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have made significant strides in understanding how nuclear explosions could be ...
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'Nuking big asteroid could save Earth'
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 ...
We could nuke an incoming asteroid. Scientists just proved it.
But asteroids aren't inherently menacing. They're just ancient objects, formed early in our solar system's history, that ...