Vipinesh Singh·22h agoIf You Push an Asteroid With a Nuclear Blast, Which Side Do You Pick?Sandia National Laboratories’ faster simulations of nuclear asteroid deflection, and the trouble with spherical asteroids
Loren Rauch·6d agoNudging Asteroids to Build Worlds and Defend PlanetsFrom lunar iron mines and Martian resources to space habitats and planetary defense: exploring how small orbital nudges could put nearby…A response icon1A response icon1
InZero OrthodoxybyChet Dembeck·Oct 26U.S. Navy Has Patented An ‘Asteroid Killer’Not yet deployed — but could it serve a dual purpose?
InThe GravitybyWhat If Science·Oct 24The Hidden Asteroid Risk: Scientists Warn We Might Not See the Next Space Rock Until It’s Too LateBy WhatIfScienceA response icon1A response icon1
InBouncin’ and Behavin’ BlogsbyJason Morton·Sep 29What If Scientists Discovered a 1-Mile-Wide Asteroid Was Hitting Earth TomorrowThe terrifying part isn’t what you think.A response icon2A response icon2
Amit Surti·Sep 24Apophis 2029: The “God of Chaos” Asteroid Is Coming. Here’s Everything You Need to KnowOn April 13, 2029, a 340-metre asteroid will pass about 32,000 km above Earth, inside the ring of our geostationary satellites. Twenty…
Amit Surti·Sep 14Kamoʻoalewa: The Asteroid That’s Been Shadowing EarthFor a decade, a tiny asteroid has quietly traced Earth’s path around the Sun — and scientists think it might be a piece of the Moon.
Arturo R Montesinos·Sep 6Don’t Sound Stupid About: The Asteroid That Killed the DinosaursThe impact lasted minutes. The extinction unfolded through darkness, hunger, ecological collapse — and selective survival.
InBay Area Environmental Research InstitutebyErin Bregman·Sep 2Characterizing Meteorites with the Asteroid Threat Assessment ProjectDaniel Ostrowski joins our video call from his meteorite lab, an unassuming beige-walled room at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon…
InStarts With A Bang!byEthan Siegel·Aug 24“Dirty snowballs” have joined together since the planets formedWe’ve now found many “conjoined” objects in the asteroid and Kuiper belts, including the first contact trinary, Nysa. What does it all…A response icon2A response icon2
