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What if we only had weeks to stop a killer asteroid? Our best bet is straight out of Hollywood.
New simulations reveal the one option left when warning time runs out—and it’s nuclear.
A decades-long mystery beneath the North Sea has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, ...
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Bruce Willis, we may have a job for you: Scientists simulate nuking an asteroid, and the results are pretty encouraging
A new study from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has used advanced 3D simulations to assess how effective a ...
Crocodile relatives largely followed warm climates for 245 million years, expanding toward the poles during hotter periods. Fossil records and climate simulations suggest tropical refuges could have ...
For a few days in mid-February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, asteroid 2024 YR4. The chance of this impact rose to a high ...
What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...
A giant asteroid named Apophis is set to make its unusual close encounter to Earth in exactly 900 days. On Friday, April 13, ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4, first discovered in December 2024, triggered a first-ever notification from the International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) on January 29, 2025. The early calculations predicted ...
The range of possible locations – represented by yellow points – of 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032. The range decreased from April to June as we gained more data and improved our certainty of the ...
Illustration of an asteroid the passing the Moon as it approaches Earth. Near-Earth asteroids are a constant threat to our planet. In the pantheon of apocalyptic science fiction stories, the ...
An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research suggests. Reading time 3 minutes Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid ...
Dinosaurs and crocodilians popped up around the same time roughly 245 million years ago, but only one group survived the asteroid impact 65 million years ago (avian dinosaurs, aside). But why?
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