NASA has issued a disturbing update on the 'city destroying' asteroid that could hit the moon in some seven years.

An award-winning UK scientist warns that it might be too late to deflect the “city killer” asteroid that’s headed toward Earth. Deflection efforts “might not be able to stop 2024 YR4 ...

“And that’s not better.” An asteroid like that would require a different kind of deflection system—a spacecraft with a powerful enough engine that it could land on the surface of the ...

In 2022, DART successfully altered the path of the asteroid Dimorphos, demonstrating the effectiveness of kinetic impact deflection. Despite this success, 2024 YR4 may not be a good candidate for ...

This means that planning numerous repeat performances isn’t a feasible strategy to further study asteroid deflection. But if you could simulate an asteroid, its surroundings, and nuclear blast ...

"Sending multiple smaller impactors not only results in a higher asteroid push but also potentially saves operational cost and increases tactical flexibility for deflection." Ferrari agrees with ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. We might be able to defend Earth from a future asteroid impact using something straight out of a sci-fi movie: a blast of X-rays.

While space agencies have tested asteroid deflection strategies—such as NASA’s DART mission, which successfully altered the orbit of a small asteroid in 2022—no current plans exist to ...

And what happens if one country mounts an asteroid-deflection test and accidentally nudges the object toward another part of the planet, rather than the infinite expanse of space? The affected ...

This experimental setup doesn’t provide a perfect simulation of an asteroid deflection mission using a nuclear explosion. But this scaled-down model offers a good way to test this technique ...

The Chinese asteroid deflection test could happen as early as 2027, in a project similar to NASA’s recent DART mission. A recent paper in the Journal of Deep Space Exploration revealed new ...