Alison Gibbings and Massimiliano Vasile, aerospace engineers at the University of Strathclyde, UK, new solution is a 500-kilogram swarm of fingernail-sized spacecraft would, they calculate, deflect a ...

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a new solution to the problem of what to do if asteroid threatens to smash into Earth. The researchers have devised a ...

Among existential threats to humanity, asteroid impacts rank high — in part because they’ve caused extinction-level events on Earth so many times before. Indeed, the dinosaurs perished 66 million ...

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course. The mission was a success in testing an asteroid deflection method that may come in handy one day, ...

In the ever-growing concern about asteroid collisions with Earth, a new study published in Nature Communications offers a breakthrough in understanding how to defend our planet from a potentially ...