The European Space Agency is about to launch a spacecraft on an important research mission designed to bolster planetary ...

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Nuclear devices generate massive amounts of X-rays. A new experiment suggests that might be enough to divert a killer ...

Exploding a nuclear bomb above a huge asteroid could vaporize its surface using X-rays, pushing the space rock away from ...

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