Early in Earth's history, bombardment by enormous asteroids was common. The asteroid-smashing planetary defense mission ...

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In the wake of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which showed that asteroids could be shifted by slamming a spacecraft into them, this X-ray technique could further prop up our ...

Millions of asteroids are floating around in space. Find out what you know about these relics of our solar system. (Jungmin Ryu for The Washington Post) Warning: This ...

Oct. 10, 2024 — When lightning cracks on Earth, especially high-energy electrons may fall out of Earth's inner radiation belt, according to a new study -- an electron 'rain' that could threaten ...

Scientists in Albuquerque, New Mexico, say potentially dangerous asteroids could possibly be deflected by exploding a nuclear warhead more than a mile from its surface and showering it with X-rays ...

Intriguingly, these X-rays also vaporized the thin metal foils that held the samples in place, so that the mock asteroids were essentially “levitating” when the X-rays hit them.

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long ...

ASTEROIDS are constantly passing Earth - and every once in a while some make a direct hit. Fortunately, the latter are all too small to pose any serious threat and burn up in the atmosphere. Of ...

Top researchers may have just uncovered a new way to combat catastrophic asteroids strikes – and you may recognise one of their methods from the silver screen. Scientists have been following in ...

"Understanding how different asteroid materials vaporize and deflect will be critical for preparing for a planetary defense mission, should the need arise." When asteroids hurtle towards Earth in ...

In 2013, for example, over 1600 people were injured when a meteor exploded above the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. To better defend ourselves against these threats, planetary scientists have ...