Certainly, there has never been a nuclear bomb in space and never any nuclear explosion, right? The Space Treaty explicitly forbids it! Granted, but it was signed starting in 1967—long after the ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that without launching nukes into space means getting creative. One day ...

If a space agency were to successfully detonate ... Sandia National Laboratories only simulated the equivalent of a nuclear explosion on an asteroid-like material using X-rays, if such a device ...

The argon imploded, transformed into a superhot, electrically charged gas called plasma, which emanated a torrent of x-rays at the targets—simulating a nuclear explosion in space. The team ...

So what is the difference between a nuclear explosion on Earth and one in space? You’ve got that first fireball that just kind of vaporizes everything around it within a certain radius.

In space, this explosion looks quite different ... across the Pacific during the Starship Prime test. Depending on a nuclear explosion’s size and altitude, its EMP can wreak havoc on the ...

Credit: USGS To simulate a potent nuclear explosion in space, Moore and his team harnessed the most powerful X-ray generator on Earth. Nuclear bombs generate a massive amount of X-rays ...