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How NASA proposes to deflect `killer` asteroids endangering Earth

What if an asteroid were headed straight for Earth?Well, NASA evidently has us covered.

NASA identifies 28 new asteroid families

Astronomers using data from NASA`s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have identified 28 new...

Moon craters may hold remains of ancient asteroids

Around 25 per cent of the Moon`s impact craters may preserve substantial pieces of the asteroids tha...

Near-Earth asteroids and Mars` 2 moons considered for future space missions

Researchers have successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how hum...

Mars bombarded by over 200 space rocks per year: NASA

Scientists have estimated that the red planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits ...

NASA plans for asteroids and a trip to Mars

Planned space adventures over the next few decades for the US National Aeronautics and Space Adminis...

`Retired` star discovered with planets, debris disc orbiting it

Astronomers have been able to obtain the first images of a dust belt - produced by colliding comets ...

Earth`s moon and asteroids share same bombardment history

NASA and international researchers have discovered that Earth`s moon and large asteroids roaming our...

Two asteroids to pass near Earth today

Two asteroids, one of them bigger in size than the celestial body that burst over Russia last month,...

Technologies being developed to save Earth from asteroids

Lowa State University engineers are developing ideas and technologies to save the Earth from potenti...

Asteroids could be deflected with spray paint

A Texas A `n` M University aerospace and physics professor is planning to deflect a killer asteroid ...

Sun-powered lasers could vaporise asteroids before they get close to earth

Lasers powered by sun could protect Earth from any threatening-looking asteroids by destroying them ...

Asteroids threatening earth to be vaporized like in Star Trek

As an asteroid readies for a fly-by of Earth on Friday, two California scientists have proposed a sy...

`Armageddon-style` protocol needed to save earth from asteroids

Space experts have expressed the need for more extensive monitoring systems and an Armageddon-style ...

NASA’S WISE reveals mystery of Jupiter’s `Trojan` asteroids

Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, scientists have uncovered new c...

Amateur astronomers to boost hazardous asteroids hunt

ESA`s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping an eye on space hazards.

Pebbles `could deflect asteroids`

Planetary scientists have claimed that flinging pebbles at an asteroid could help deflect the Earth-...

Asteroids hit earth more frequently than thought

Giant asteroids, similar or larger than the one believed to have killed the dinosaurs, hit Earth bil...

Solar powered lasers could zap asteroids

Engineers are developing an innovative laser-based technique to zap asteroids with greater probabili...

NASA catalogs thousands of asteroids near Earth

About 1,000 asteroids big enough to cause catastrophic damage if they hit Earth are orbiting relativ...

20% of asteroids have moons too!

The discovery of moons around asteroids is important because it can provide clues to the asteroid’s ...

`Fewer dangerous asteroids surrounded the Earth`

The Earth is surrounded by nearly 50 percent fewer potentially dangerous asteroids than thought prev...

NASA finds fewer asteroids near earth

Scientists say this discovery may indicate the hazard to earth could be somewhat less than previousl...

NASA IDs 90% of largest near-Earth asteroids

NASA says it has found more than 90 per cent of the biggest asteroids that might pose a threat to Ea...

Asteroids are linked to meteorites striking earth

Analysis of dust samples from an asteroid known as Itokawa has unspooled these links.

Scientists discover ‘molecules essential for life’ in asteroids, comets

A team of scientists has discovered molecules essential for life in material from certain kinds of a...

PS1 telescope discovers 19 near-Earth asteroids

The Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope has created a new record discovering 19 near-Earth asteroids.

NASA’S NEOWISE finds previously unknown comets, asteroids

The mission, called NEOWISE, also identified 134 near-Earth objects (NEOs).

Water ice on asteroids is more common than expected

Scientists have discoverd that water ice on asteroids may be more common than expected.

Asteroids to fly by Earth today: NASA

Two asteroids are to zip close by Earth within hours of each other Wednesday, the US space agency sa...

Spitzer Telescope spots mix of asteroids near Earth

This will help astronomers better understand near-Earth objects as a whole.

Trojan asteroids around Neptune could hit Earth

Material from the Trojan asteroids could go on to become comets that could strike our planet.

25,000 new asteroids found by NASA`s sky mapping

One of NASA`s newest space telescopes has spotted 25,000 never-before-seen asteroids in just six mon...

Telescope to spot ‘killer’ asteroids fully operational

Astronomers have announced that the first Pan-STARRS telescope is fully operational.

Smashed asteroids may be related to dinosaur killer

Astronomers have found a comet-like object they believe was created by the collision of two asteroid...

US doing little to defend the planet against asteroids: Report

The United States is doing little to defend the planet against potentially devastating asteroids and...

US govt doing little about asteroids: Report

The United States is doing little to defend the planet against potentially devastating asteroids and...

NASA lacks money to track killer asteroids: Study

US space agency NASA does not have enough cash to track the large nearby asteroids that could pose a...

Comets, not asteroids, scarred Moon’s face: Study

A new study of ancient rocks in Greenland has suggested that icy comets – not rocky asteroids – laun...

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