Smashing stuff into approaching asteroids—"kinetic impact," as the nerds say—is only one method among many and may not ... in such a scenario, and the US should continue to conduct planetary ...

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...

Clear your curiosity with this eye ... Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video) The US made major Social Security changes for 3 groups of older ...

Belief that the end of the world is near is not uncommon among many religious groups. It even has a name – apocalypticism. Our schools teach us nothing about avoiding asteroids. That part of ...

Gary Henry, a former Air Force space and missile program supervisor, was among them ... launch a new space telescope that will search for asteroids that might threaten Earth.

If successful, Athena would be the second US-made spacecraft to land on the moon ... and what is possible,” Cyrus added. It’s not yet clear, however, if the MAPP rover will be able to leave ...

These are clear signs ... finding near-Earth asteroids, comets do occasionally show up in the data, and “it’s a nice perk of this job that we get a comet named after us,” he says.

You can rsquo;t afford to be late In this incredibly fast-paced, highly-mutable world of ours, a nation is only as good as how well they keep pace with the rest of the world mdash;particularly the top ...

This "ringdown" creates a clear, recognizable oscillation in gravity ... instead of accumulating it like Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. The laws of physics predict that there will exist a radius ...

More than 38,000 asteroids ... and the US should continue to conduct planetary-defense exercises with other spacefaring nations and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. Although YR4 no ...