Earlier this month, NASA identified an asteroid—2015 TB145—that will pass by Earth on Oct. 31, at the relatively close distance of 310,000 miles. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory notes that the flyby, ...
In the late 1960s, a group of graduate students at MIT took on an extraordinary challenge: figuring out how to stop an asteroid from slamming into Earth. The result? Project Icarus. A detailed, ...