Can We Redirect Asteroids like in Armageddon? | SciShow News

If you think punching an asteroid to knock it off the course to Earth’s destruction is purely for science fiction, you might only be right a for a little longer! Plus, scientists are being thrown for a loop with the orbits of planets around a star in the constellation Pisces.

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