A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

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A British scientist was the first person to see the rocky surface of the asteroid Eros as the American Near Shoemaker spacecraft historically touched down on it. Dr Louise Prockter, 36 ...

The "nuclear option" would be most likely to be used with larger asteroids more than half a mile in diameter. Another option would be to use a large laser to evaporate the asteroid’s surface, driving ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

The size of YR4 suggests it could have been a boulder that once sat on the surface of a larger rubble-pile asteroid. Small, 50-meter-sized asteroids, like YR4, may have low thermal inertia ...

It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful ... lack of rock exposed at the Earth’s surface during that window of time ...

The latest study suggested that the asteroid may have been a boulder that once sat on the surface of a larger rubble-pile asteroid. open image in gallery Composite image of asteroid 2024 YR4 ...

In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ... of at the surface of Mars.