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It May Be Safe to Nuke an Earthbound Asteroid After All, Simulation Suggests

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...
The Hill

What we know and don’t know about the asteroid hurtling toward Earth

Let’s get the first question out of the way quickly. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 50- to 90-meter-wide Earth-approaching object, is likely not going to hit our planet in 2032. But, since the odds of it ...
NextBigFuture

Asteroid Threat Detection and Planetary Defense Can Be Complete and Ready by 2035

We need an enhanced version of SUNSET to establish a space-based, combined discovery and early-warning system for NEOs (Near Earth Objects). If we use multiple satellites traveling ahead of Earth on ...
Arizona Daily Star

International Asteroid Day: A look at NASA's first planetary defense mission

"DART is a first step in testing methods for hazardous asteroid deflection," said Andrea Riley, DART program executive at NASA Headquarters, in a statement. "Potentially hazardous asteroids are a ...
Live Science

NASA's asteroid-slamming DART mission completely changed the shape of its target

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have discovered that the target asteroid of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...
AOL

Opinion - What we know and don’t know about the asteroid hurtling toward Earth

Let’s get the first question out of the way quickly. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 50- to 90-meter-wide Earth-approaching object, is likely not going to hit our planet in 2032. But, since the odds of it ...