A team of researchers has put forth the idea of launching nuclear bombs at asteroid 2024 YR4 with a chance of hitting the ...

With an asteroid threatening impact with the moon in 2032, NASA explores all possible avenues to avert catastrophe—even ...

With no atmosphere to slow it down, asteroid 2024 YR4 could carve a 1-km-wide crater—the largest fresh lunar scar in 5,000 ...

Would one error transform a lunar danger into a global catastrophe? That is the query confronting researchers as they consider how to handle asteroid 2024 YR4, a 55–60 meter-sized object now estimated ...

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Asteroid 2024 YR4, first detected in December 2024, is about 55 meters wide and was initially feared to have a 3.1% chance of striking Earth in 2032.

Look, we don’t want to anthropomorphize, but is it possible that a planet that has gone to such lengths to make life ...

Anyone who's seen Armageddon is familiar with the concept of using a nuclear weapon on an asteroid that has the potential to trigger a catastrophic event.

If that fails, scientists suggest preparing a nuclear option. Detonating a rocket-delivered nuke on or near the asteroid ...

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NOAA's GOES-19 satellite may have captured the first natural solar eclipse from space, with the moon's odd path explained by a spacecraft maneuver.

Such a collision could have devastating consequences for satellites and astronauts in space, prompting a group of scientists ...