Redirecting an asteroid with a nuclear bomb should work
The old joke about the dinosaurs going extinct because they didn't have a space program may be overselling the need for one.
Gizmodo Science Fair: A Clever Fix Rescued NASA’s Stuck Asteroid Samples
When asteroid samples dropped to the Utah desert in 2023, it was go time for NASA's dedicated curation team.
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NASA reveals images of enormous, snowman-shaped asteroid 2024 ON after its ultra-close approach to Earth
New close-up images reveal the surprising snowman shape of "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2024 ON, which tumbled safely ...
‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Will Zoom By Earth Tonight—But NASA Says It’s Safe: What To Know
The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the ...
Watch the Skies: Debris From NASA’s DART Asteroid Collision Could Spark a Meteor Display on Earth
NASA's DART mission in 2022 dramatically altered an asteroid's orbit, potentially sending debris toward Earth and Mars, ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s terrifying prediction on when asteroid may hit Earth is approaching very soon
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once shared a terrifying prediction about when an asteroid could possibly hit Earth.
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Could nukes deflect an asteroid? ‘X-ray scissors’ offer scientists clues.
We don’t want to wait for a large asteroid to show up and then scramble for the right method to deflect it.” ...
Breakthrough confirms nuclear blast can deflect large asteroids headed towards Earth
Most dangerous asteroids will require vast quantities of energy akin to nuclear explosion to deflect them, scientists say ...