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It is comforting to imagine that trained in the universe on both space- and earth-based telescopes, we could find asteroids of any dangerous size a mile away on our way, which would have plenty of time to color them white or explode them. . But every asteroid we see coming …

An artist’s close-up portrait of the earth.Image: NASA / JPL-Caltech A small handful of objects are known to pose a serious threat to Earth, and the giant asteroid Apophis is one of them. Scientists are now re-evaluating the possibility of attacking our planet in 48 years due to improved observations …