and you'll catch far more than fatalities spurred by your asteroid design. Agarwal tells you how many gigatons of TNT your explosion equaled, how many people would receive second-degree burns if ...

It would be really constrained.” Such a mission design could be similar to NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which successfully changed the orbit of an asteroid by slamming into it in ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) newest planetary defender has opened its "eye" to the cosmos for the first time. The Flyeye ...

This proved that an asteroid deflection mission could work if scientists have enough time to design and build it, an undertaking that took about five years for DART. A deflection mission is most ...

NASA has begun work on an asteroid-hunting telescope to protect ... The telescope is transitioning into the final design and fabrication phase and establishing its technical, cost, and schedule ...

The asteroid was named for the Egyptian god of ... “(DellaGiustina) led a student experiment design for a discovery version of what we called Osiris back then,” Lauretta recalled.

But if the asteroid directly hits a city, millions could die. However apocalyptic that might sound, the fact that we can imagine 2024 YR4’s impact is by design: Space agencies—particularly ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA. The space rock, called 2024 YR4, was previously given up to a 3.1% chance of ...

You may notice something different about Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City.” It looks a bit austere, at least by the baroque design standards that distinguish the director’s “The Grand ...