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Good news: If these things come too close, we can blast them out of the sky. Photo: NASA/ZUMA Press Wire Service/Shutterstock Scientists Have Finally Worked Out How to Save Earth from a Huge Asteroid
A new study has answered a question that Hollywood directors and defense specialists have been asking for decades.








