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Lindley Johnson has been a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...
A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...
A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly 4% chance of smashing into the moon, according to ...
2024 YR4 “easily overwhelmed everything else that we were doing,” says Kathryn Kumamoto, head of the planetary defense program at the nuclear physics–focused Lawrence Livermore National ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of an asteroid that was once ranked as the biggest threat to Earth. Earlier this year, the asteroid 2024 YR4 shot to the top of the ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Could nuclear explosions help protect ... According to NASA’s 2023 Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan, there are an estimated 25,000 objects larger than ...
“It all comes down to doing things as early as you can, because then you barely have to do anything,” said Kathryn Kumamoto, head of the planetary defense program at Lawrence Livermore ...
There is a non-zero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all. This stony assassin may well be orbiting the sun at this very moment, careening down a ...
YR4 was classified in February at Level 3 on the Torino Scale prompting the UN to activate the Planetary Security Protocol for the first time.