If an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, can humanity be saved not with a bang, but with a nudge? NASA is poised to investigate just that with a first-of-its-kind mission to deflect an asteroid by ...

HELSINKI — China will aim to alter the orbit of a potentially threatening asteroid with a kinetic impactor test as part of plans for a planetary defense system. China is drafting a planetary defense ...

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Debris from an asteroid deflected by NASA could reach our planet within the next decade, a study says. The research team ran simulations that tracked 3 million debris particles from the Double ...