Forget about nukes, dangerous asteroids could be deflected with paintball pellets
Artist impression of the Apophis asteroid. No, this isn't one of those misleading headlines. A MIT graduate student has recently ...
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Reducing global warming using an asteroid cloud dust
According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, climate change models suggest that average global temperatures will likely rise ...
NASA’s Dawn spaceship departs Vesta asteroid, heads for Ceres
It's one asteroid down and one to go, for NASA's Dawn spacecraft. After spending a year studying the Vesta asteroid ...
NASA: students will name asteroid which might head for Earth in a century
While NASA gives all sort of fun names to missions, projects, telescopes - asteroids is not their slickest field. Names ...
First private space telescope is set to safeguard humanity from asteroid threats
Ed Lu, Chairman of the B612 Foundation, shows the telescope of a model of the Sentinel Space Telescope during a ...
No more worries – computer simulation shows nuclear bomb can save Earth from an asteroid
The plot of the Hollywood blockbuster flick Armageddon is fairly simple - a giant asteroid is hurling towards Earth, threatening ...
Comet might have catastrophically collided with Earth 13,000 years ago
A recently published study suggests that the Earth might have been visited by a giant space rock 13,000 years ago, ...
A large asteroid will pass Earth, closer than Moon
According to NASA, a large asteroid called 2005 YU55 is expected to pass at some 201,700 miles of Earth on ...
Half of supermassive black holes are surrounded by ‘dust clouds’
Black holes are perhaps the most fascinating and staggering objects in the known Universe, and we are just now beginning ...
Gamma-ray bursts might cause mass extinction on Earth
Most of us tend to believe the Earth is a safe heaven, with little regard to outerwordly consequences. The truth ...
NASA maps 93% of all near-Earth asteroids. In other news, Dinosaurs wish they had science.
Armageddon can wait, NASA's in charge for a little while longer. The space agency recently released to the general public ...
New dinosaur extinction theory: an ocean of lava
It wasn't just a devastating asteroid that killed off all the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Scientists from Boston University ...
NASA’s DAWN spacecraft successfully enters Vesta’s orbit. Snaps detailed photo
This weekend, NASA's DAWN spacecraft finally put a lot of tension and nerves to rest after it successfully entered Vesta's ...
NASA spacecraft set to visit giant asteroid this weekend
After a four year journey, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft will finally reach the orbit of Vesta, the second largest asteroid in ...
Bus-sized Asteroid barely misses Earth
This Monday (June 27), an asteroid the size of a bus just buzzed our planet after a flyby which brought ...
NASA to collect samples from near-Earth asteroid
NASA announced that it will launch an unmaned ship to a nearby asteroid, in an attempt to figure out more ...
Stalker asteroid could be Earth’s close relative
Astronomers from the the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland declared that a recently discovered asteroid has been following our planet ...
Huge asteroid to pass near Earth in November
Researchers and astronomy amateurs alike should leave a few days open in their November calendar and prepare for something awesome; ...
NASA rejects Russian report: Apophis asteroid extremely unlikely to hit earth
In 2004, NASA researchers identified the Apophis asteroid and after some quick calculations they states there is a chance the ...
Japanese probe returns home with asteroid dust
JAXA, the Japanese space agency is becoming more and more active these days, as Japanese researchers are getting involved in ...
How to deflect an asteroid with today’s technology
An asteroid threat to Earth seems like something we are going to have to face, sooner or later - and ...
The 8 coolest ways the Earth might be destroyed
We've all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive ...
Life had a big rebound following marine mass extinction event
In 1980, Luis Alvarez and his team shocked the whole world when they announced their theory that an asteroid impact ...
First firm prediction of an incoming space rock confirmed
A very small asteroid exploded over the continent of Africa this week, confirming the prediction of astronomers. Despite the fact ...
