Scientists Say Heck, Just Nuke a Killer Asteroid Heading for Earth

Scientists Say Heck, Just Nuke a Killer Asteroid Heading for Earth

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove incredibly destructive, like the 60-foot Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over the southern Ural region in Russia in 2013, releasing a blast equivalent to 30 times the energy of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. And in case an even larger space rock were to ever threaten humanity, we’d have to get creative to keep…

Is it really possible to deflect an asteroid using nuclear weapons ?

Scientists have used a new computer simulation to find out if nuking an asteroid could actually save us from catastrophe. Nuclear weapons have the pot...