Last Updated: Sunday, February 24, 2013, 12:27
A Texas A `n` M University aerospace and physics professor is planning to deflect a killer asteroid by using paint.
Last Updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 14:01
Lasers powered by sun could protect Earth from any threatening-looking asteroids by destroying them before they can get too close, U.S. researchers have suggested.
Last Updated: Friday, February 15, 2013, 15:35
As an asteroid readies for a fly-by of Earth on Friday, two California scientists have proposed a system that could eliminate a threat of this size in an hour. <br><br>
Last Updated: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 16:48
Space experts have expressed the need for more extensive monitoring systems and an Armageddon-style protocol to save our planet from a potentially hazardous asteroid.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 19:07
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, scientists have uncovered new clues in the ongoing mystery of the Jovian Trojans -- asteroids that orbit the Sun on the same path as Jupiter.
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 21:20
ESA`s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping an eye on space hazards.
Last Updated: Sunday, May 6, 2012, 17:51
Planetary scientists have claimed that flinging pebbles at an asteroid could help deflect the Earth-bound rock in space.
Last Updated: Thursday, April 26, 2012, 09:18
Giant asteroids, similar or larger than the one believed to have killed the dinosaurs, hit Earth billions of years ago with more frequency than previously thought, US space agency NASA said Wednesday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 12:47
Engineers are developing an innovative laser-based technique to zap asteroids with greater probability of success.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 8, 2011, 10:24
About 1,000 asteroids big enough to cause catastrophic damage if they hit Earth are orbiting relatively nearby, a NASA survey shows.
Last Updated: Friday, October 7, 2011, 14:24
The discovery of moons around asteroids is important because it can provide clues to the asteroid’s formation.
Last Updated: Sunday, October 2, 2011, 19:19
The Earth is surrounded by nearly 50 percent fewer potentially dangerous asteroids than thought previously, a new NASA study has found.
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