Hiroshima

New York City, home to 8.6 million people and one hot duck, has perished in an apocalyptic meteor strike … in a simulation. Over the past week, some 200 space experts from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and other organizations have been melding their …

Posted May 07, 2019 14:57:16 Some of the biggest brains in the international space community have come together to see how Earth would fare in the face of a catastrophic asteroid threat. Key points: NASA and ESA experts gathered to respond to a simulated…

On May 3, a global asteroid impact simulation ended with its most recent disaster: New York City and its nearby boroughs completely “flattened” by a giant killer space rock. Even though the situation was completely fictional and featured eight years of simula…

In a NASA simulation of a fictional scenario, New York City was hit with an asteroid packing 1,000 times the destruction of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.  The exercise, which was part of the "National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Acti…

NASA is warning that meteors pose a major threat to Earth, so agencies are already testing out ways to defend against them by using lasers or by ramming spacecraft into them. During a conference last week, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine explained that no…

The conflict between Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the Johor palace is showing no signs of abating. In a Facebook posting this evening, his communication and media advisor A Kadir Jasin waded into the issue again, hours after his boss' excoriation o…

Last month I was invited to a radio interview about a recent meteor over the Bering Sea which was spotted off Russia’s Kamchatka’s peninsula on December 18, 2018 after producing a blast with 10 times the energy of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima. In preparatio…

A massive killer asteroid is headed straight for New York. An exercise set up by "planetary defense" experts is reportedly meant to gauge what would happen if authorities were unable to deflect a giant space rock hurtling toward America's most populous city …

Evan Rachel Wood will star alongside Jim Sturgess and Shinobu Terajima in “One Thousand Paper Cranes” which tells the story of Hiroshima survivor Sadako Sasaki and author Eleanor Coerr who wrote the worldwide bestselling childrens book “Sadako and the Thousan…

College Park (United States) (AFP) - After devastating the French Riviera in 2013, destroying Dhaka in 2015 and saving Tokyo in 2017, an international asteroid impact simulation ended Friday with its latest disaster -- New York in ruins. Despite a simulated …