The integrations needed to determine beam deflections require the enforcement of the appropriate displacement and rotation boundary conditions (BCs). It is important that we be able to recognize these ...

Proposed for the deflection and mitigation of asteroids, laser ablation is caused by illuminating the surface of the asteroid with a laser light source. The laser beam heats the surface material, ...

Scientists continue to pore over the results of NASA’s stunningly successful DART test to deflect a harmless asteroid. As the latest findings suggest, the recoil created by the blast of debris spewing ...

If a space probe crashes into an asteroid and there's no one there to see it, did it leave a crater? ESA wants to avoid such questions by sending its unmanned Hera orbiter to the Didymos binary ...

The Nasa probe that struck an asteroid in September to try to deflect its path had a bigger effect because of all the debris it kicked out. The Dart mission slammed into egg-shaped Dimorphos to ...