NASA Is Considering Nuking An Asteroid

Late last year, an asteroid made global headlines as astronomers discovered it had a 1% chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. That chance has since gone to almost zero, but astronomers say there’s now a 4% chance of it hitting the Moon. NASA is now considering two possible options for protecting our moon: deflecting the asteroid, or blowing it up with a nuke. Let’s take a look.