Experts have warned that NASA's asteroid deflection system could inadvertently send one towards Earth. The Double Asteroid ...
New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...
Using insights from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), researchers have developed a tool that would reveal future ...
Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a gravitational keyhole that sets up a future collision with Earth. Using lessons from ...
Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...
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DART spacecraft's asteroid impact informs new planetary defense strategy
When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...
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Can we safely deflect a killer asteroid without making it worse? Only if we avoid the gravitational 'keyhole,' scientists say
To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...
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43 million years ago, asteroid impact gave birth to Silverpit crater under North Sea
F or more than two decades, the Silverpit crater, a strange circular depression hidden under the North Sea, has baffled ...
China has unveiled its mission to impact deliberately a near-Earth asteroid by 2030 – a decisive step toward establishing its ...
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 ...
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