If an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, can humanity be saved not with a bang, but with a nudge? NASA is poised to investigate just that with a first-of-its-kind mission to deflect an asteroid by ...

HELSINKI — China will aim to alter the orbit of a potentially threatening asteroid with a kinetic impactor test as part of plans for a planetary defense system. China is drafting a planetary defense ...

China is targeting a small non-threatening near-Earth asteroid for a daring attempt to run into it at high speeds and move it off its course. The Chinese asteroid deflection test could happen as early ...

Data from a recent integrated ground test of the Alpha high-energy laser, its beam director telescope and the associated beam alignment and correction system have provided the team developing the ...

A load deflection test using a loaded wagon was carried out on Friday in the MRTS Phase II extension between Velachery and St Thomas Mount railway stations in Chennai, according to a release. The test ...