—Newly discovered near-Earth asteroid isn't an asteroid at all — it's Elon Musk's trashed Tesla —'City-killer' asteroid has a 1-in-83 chance of smashing into Earth in 2032, NASA says —We may finally know what causes Mars' gigantic, planet-wide dust storms Also in science news th...
' Earth safe from 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science! Scientists are excited about the flyby, for it gives them a rare chance to get an up-close look at a decent-size asteroid. Photos of ...
If you've already hit the theater to see director Wes Anderson's new film Astroid City, you may have spotted its connection to The Cowboy State. At the beginning of the movie Astroid City, we are told thatthe fictional author of the play we are about to watch is from North Western ...
' Earth safe from 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 Watch asteroid 2024 YR4 zoom harmlessly through space after risk of hitting Earth falls to near zero (video) Both shows will feature commentary from Slooh president Patrick Paolucci and Astronomy Magazine columnist Bob Berman. [Photos: Asteroids ...
It seems indeed theoretically possible to build a giant underground city and to organize the society such that the needs of each domain are fulfilled. However, there are many possible failure reasons and as it is almost impossible to anticipate all difficulties in the five domains, the weakness ...
The largest known asteroid is Vesta, which is pretty tiny compared with a planet; it is only 329 miles (530 km) in diameter — roughly the distance from New York City to Buffalo, New York. Vesta, however, isn't representative of asteroid size in general. Many of these small worlds are...
“This is similar in energy to the KT extinction event that killed the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. Such an event, if not mitigated, would be an existential threat to humanity,” they said. “We show that mitigation is conceivable using existing technology, even with the short t...
Modern civilization has no collective experience with possible wide-ranging effects from a medium-sized asteroid impactor. Currently, modeling efforts that
The 2013 asteroid entry into Earth's atmosphere and explosion over the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia [41] has caused a renewed interest in the threat posed by asteroids, including the establishment of the NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office to lead the interagency efforts in the USA to pl...
In the fall of 1867, a Toronto schoolteacher named Alexander Muir was traipsing a street at the city, all squelchy underfoot from the soft felt of falling leaves, when a maple leaf alighted to his coat sleeve and stuck there. At home that evening, he wrote a poem and set it to ...