CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...
NASA flags an asteroid, the odds shift, and better tracking usually turns worry into a clean miss. The system improves each ...
Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...
While humanity has determined how to mind-control beetles and extinguish fire with sound waves, it has yet to devise a surefooted plan for dealing with an asteroid collision, a procrastination that ...
In news that is almost straight out of Don’t Look Up but far less horrifying, an astronomer in Poland detected an asteroid on March 11. The small asteroid, only about a meter in diameter, impacted the ...