Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...

NASA's 2019 asteroid simulation imagined a fragment hitting New York in 2027 after an attempt to deflect the space rock broke it apart.

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 ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a ...

Nuking an asteroid to smithereens is such a viable, if completely theoretical, tactic that scientists publishing their findings in The Planetary Science Journal just tested it out. In a computer ...

Ready or not, 2024 YR4 is coming to an orbit near you. Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while astronomers warn ...

You might remember news reporting from earlier this year that a 180-foot asteroid had about a 3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. And if it did, it would unleash energy equivalent to hundreds of ...

The China National Space Administration plans to launch the asteroid sample-return mission TianWen-2 with the target being the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3. The TianWen-2 spacecraft mainly focuses on ...

The 1998 sci-fi classic Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster got one thing right – we really could nuke an ...

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