Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...
In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...
The growing precision of space observation has placed planetary defence at the centre of contemporary astrophysics. Among emerging candidates for mitigation planning, asteroid 2024 YR4 has prompted ...
A newly proposed plan by a team of scientists, including NASA researchers, suggests using nuclear explosive devices to prevent an asteroid from striking the moon in 2032. The asteroid, 2024 YR4, once ...
The successful candidates will be required to research tasks related to near-Earth asteroid monitoring and early warning systems, according to the job description for the three positions, among 16 ...