It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s a wild possibility scientists are actually exploring: how to fit a space station inside an asteroid.
According to a report in the Express, citing NASA and ESA sources, a giant 700-foot-wide Asteroid is heading toward Earth. Since it’s located on a risky trajectory, there is a small possibility that it could collide with Earth.
Extinct comet classified as potentially hazardous because of its size and proximity to our planet
Protecting Earth from dangerous space rocks might require a little asteroid-on-asteroid violence.
We have peer review!
The IAU has confirmed that the asteroid originally designated ZLAF9B2 – now called 2018 LA – disintegrated at a height of 30 miles (50 km) over South Africa on Saturday.
Harvey Underwood is the proud Tsawout First Nation Chief who now gets to look up at the sky, knowing that the name of their community has a place among the stars.
For the first time, a permanent member of our solar system has been found to have originated elsewhere
ESO telescopes find first confirmed carbon-rich asteroid in Kuiper Belt
The first discovered interstellar visitor to our solar system has had a violent past, which is causing it to tumble around chaotically, a Queen’s University Belfast scientist has discovered.
