Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a new solution to the problem of what to do if asteroid threatens to smash into Earth. The researchers have devised a ...

A recent study published in Aerospace combined the projectile breakdown theory and projectile impact model to analyze helicopter fuselage projectile damage. The efficacy of the proposed analysis ...

NASA is gearing up for a head-on collision with a comet. In January, the space agency will launch Deep Impact, a rocket that will fire a projectile into Comet Tempel 1. If all goes well, a collision ...

On target: time sequence of a glass projectile striking a dust target. (Courtesy: Hiroaki Katsuragi and Jürgen Blum/Phys. Rev. Lett.) By dropping tiny projectiles into clumps of dust, physicists in ...