Among existential threats to humanity, asteroid impacts rank high — in part because they’ve caused extinction-level events on Earth so many times before. Indeed, the dinosaurs perished 66 million ...

Alison Gibbings and Massimiliano Vasile, aerospace engineers at the University of Strathclyde, UK, new solution is a 500-kilogram swarm of fingernail-sized spacecraft would, they calculate, deflect a ...

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a new solution to the problem of what to do if asteroid threatens to smash into Earth. The researchers have devised a ...