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, ...

NASA’s DART mission, the first-ever planetary defense test in space, sent a spacecraft to crash into an asteroid in 2022. That mission was a success. It showed that, in a hypothetical scenario where a ...

Millions of asteroids orbit the Sun. Smaller fragments often brush the Earth’s atmosphere to light up the sky as meteors. Once every few centuries, a meteoroid has sufficient size to cause regional ...

DURING two thunderstorms at the beginning of the present monsoon, the recorded curves of the Copenhagen declination magnetograph recently installed at Alibag showed some characteristic features which ...

Abstract: Aiming at the serious distortion problem of drill tool azimuth angle calculation caused by the measurement error of the magnetometer while drilling, an ...