Scientists in Albuquerque, New Mexico, say potentially dangerous asteroids could possibly be deflected by exploding a nuclear warhead ... Earth into a shotgun blast of multiple fragments.
An alternative approach tested in the new study uses X-rays from a nuclearexplosion to rapidly heat up the targeted space rock’s surface, causing it to vaporise and change course. In lab ...
This argon plasma produced the X-ray burst the researchers needed to simulate a similar one from a nuclearexplosion. "You have to concentrate a lot of power, about 80 trillion watts, into a very ...
We might be able to defend Earth from a future asteroid impact using something straight out of a sci-fi movie: a blast of X-rays. This pulse of X-ray radiation, produced by a nuclearexplosion ...