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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system’s most enticing space rocks.The robotic trailblazer named Lucy is up first, blasting off this weekend...

A megaton nuke, exploding near the surface of an asteroid would destroy it without leaving thousands of fragments, a team from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland found.

A new simulation from researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) suggests that nuclear

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system’s most enticing space rocks. The robotic trailblazer named Lucy is up first, blasting off this weekend on a 12-year cruise to swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter — unexplored time capsules from the dawn of the solar system.

Hollywood’s answer to the daunting problem of a potential asteroid collision with the Earth in 1998 was to send a crack team of astronauts and blue-collar workers riding space shuttles with a nuclear bomb. Over twenty years later, NASA is planning to impact an asteroid with more effective means albeit with slightly less cinematic glitz.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Associated Press) -- Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the so...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system’s most enticing space rocks. The robotic trailblazer named Lucy is up first, blasting off this weekend on a 12-year cruise to swarms of asteroids

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system’s most enticing space

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Attention asteroid aficionados: NASA is set to launch a series of spacecraft to visit and even bash some of the solar system’s most enticing space rocks. The robotic trailblazer named Lucy is up first, blasting off this weekend on a 12-year cruise to swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter — unexplored time capsules from the dawn of the solar system.