In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...
A standard laser generated proton beam is created through firing a laser pulse at a thin metallic foil. The new method involves instead first splitting the laser into two less intense pulses, before ...
A team studying asteroids using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) proton beam has found a few complications with the idea ...