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A nuclear bomb might one day deflect an asteroid and save Earth from a disaster. Here’s how the lab simulation went: Before the asteroid could threaten the peaceful blue planet below, a powerful pulse ...
NASA and other federal agencies recently did a tabletop simulation of an Earth-threatening asteroid to see how they'd handle it Asteroid headed toward Earth? NASA simulation explores how the nation ...
Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.