Humanity Officially Has a Viable Defense Against Killer Asteroids, NASA Confirms
1 min readImage credit: dore art. Article by Becky Ferreira. Vice – March 1, 2023.
A slew of new studies analyzing NASA’s mission to punch an asteroid off-course have confirmed that humanity now has a viable tool to defend our home planet against a devastating impact. On September 26, 2022, humanity altered the course of a celestial object for the first time in history by deliberately crashing a spacecraft into a small “moonlet” asteroid that orbits a larger space rock. […]