The weight of the asteroid may vary from 51 million kg to more than 711 million kg, and the energy required to move each of those weights precisely differs greatly.
A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...
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NASA’s High-Stakes Nuclear Plan to Stop Moon-Bound Asteroid
What’s the fastest way to stop a city-killer asteroid? Some scientists say: detonate it. Asteroid 2024 YR4, which was ...
Russia, creator of the world's most powerful nuclear weapon, the Tsar Bomb, is likely set to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft aimed at sabotaging Western satellites across low Earth orbit. (Photo ...
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Nuclear Strike Proposed to Stop Asteroid’s 2032 Moon Collision
Would humanity’s initial nuclear mission to distant space be directed not at defending the Earth, but the moon? A ...
In February 2024, it was revealed that Russia is developing a space-based antisatellite capability, suspected of being a space-based nuclear weapon. The weapon, if deployed, would violate the Outer ...
The Global Burst Detection system, developed by Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, carries a suite of sensors and ...
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