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 recently named four asteroids after four Catholic religious sisters who helped catalog about 500,000 stars in the Vatican portion of the Carte du Ciel “Celestial Map” star atlas of ...

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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 ...

In lab experiments, scientists heated the surfaces of free-falling faux asteroids with X-ray radiation, producing vapor plumes that pushed the objects away. Subsequent computer simulations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Deflecting killer asteroids with nuclear weapons has long been the stuff of science fiction. But thanks to an experiment at Sandia National Laboratories, that scenario has taken a step closer to ...

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 ...

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 ...