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The nuclear option: Scientists reveal how atomic blasts could save Earth from asteroids
If an asteroid was ever threatening Earth, the best way to stop it might be with a nuclear explosion, according to a new ...
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Scientists say we may need to nuke asteroids—but not how you think
We’ve all seen the cheap movie version. A giant asteroid is screaming toward Earth, humanity panics, some heroics happen, and ...
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Meet NASA's NEO Surveyor: A 'one-of-a-kind mission' designed to find the most dangerous asteroids
“By identifying objects that ground telescopes can miss, this mission will provide the critical data we need to safeguard our ...
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Experts no longer think life began on Earth. Here's what convinced them
The latest discovery of nucleotides on an asteroid is making scientists rethink the story of how life got going ...
A large asteroid does not need to hit Earth to expose a hard truth: the most dangerous space rocks may be the ones spotted ...
Scientists in China say a nuclear explosion could be the most effective way to stop a large asteroid—and they may have ...
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Asteroids May Have Delayed The Birth of Earth's First Continents
An AI simulation of an impact shows basalt-rich (purple) and basalt-poor (green) regions. (Curtin University) The planet Earth we live on today bears very few traces of its infancy. The 500 million ...
Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth's surface—they could have helped spark life itself. New computer models show the collisions created enormous underground hydrothermal ...
Like a shelf in an old house, the Earth collects a lot of dust from its surroundings. This "space dust" is mostly made up of ...
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