Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...
For decades, the idea of saving Earth from an incoming asteroid with nuclear weapons lived mostly in popcorn cinema, a ...
Earlier this month, NASA identified an asteroid—2015 TB145—that will pass by Earth on Oct. 31, at the relatively close distance of 310,000 miles. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory notes that the flyby, ...