A suicide mission to an asteroid tests a way of defending Earth - The Economist
Detected early enough, a threatening space rock might be safely deflected
The idea that Earth is threated from outer space sounds, at first encounter, like science fiction. Hostile aliens either do not exist or, if they do, are too far away to matter. But space rocks are r… [+2586 chars]
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