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NASA Psyche mission faces puzzle: Asteroid collisions restart planetary magnetic fields

NASA Psyche mission scientists will need to rethink how they interpret magnetic data from asteroid 16 Psyche after an Oxford ...

A world-ending asteroid, a nuclear bomb and one risky mission: Scientists explain their emergency plan to save Earth but there is a catch

Scientists have outlined a new strategy that could one day help protect Earth from one of the most devastating threats ...
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Scientists detail 'Armageddon' style plan to stop Doomsday asteroid capable of destroying Earth

Scientists in China have detailed an 'Armageddon' style plan involving nuclear bombs to stop a 'Doomsday' asteroid which is ...

China eyes first kinetic impact test for asteroid defense, targeting smaller and less predictable asteroids than NASA’s DART

China is studying an on-orbit kinetic impact test mission for planetary defense that would target a small near-Earth asteroid about 30 meters in diameter, a scenario considered closer to a real ...

Scientists propose nuking solution to Doomsday asteroid — as thousands of city-killers swarm Earth

That’s one way to stop the a-rock-alypse. Chinese scientists have devised an unorthodox solution to stop a potential Doomsday ...
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Half-Mile Carbonaceous Asteroid Gets First Full Portrait Before 2028 Flyby

Asteroid 2001 WN5 has been confirmed as a B-type carbonaceous asteroid by a new peer-reviewed study, giving planetary defense ...
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Armageddon was right: We really could nuke a doomsday asteroid by burying a bomb deep within it

In 1998, the sci-fi blockbuster Armageddon drew the ire of scientists by proposing humanity could avert the apocalypse by ...