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 see this as a much more favorable alternative to nuclear deflection, which would use a powerful nuclear bomb to ...

Using a downhole motor with bent housing most effectively requires determination of its deflecting performance and designing the bottom hole assembly according to the expected deflection rate.

When you’re trying to keep a rogue asteroid from hitting Earth, you’d better get it right the first time. With this in mind, the European Space Agency (ESA) is looking for new ideas to help develop a ...

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 ...