A science team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is currently working on a project to help defend the Earth against asteroid impacts.

According to KRQE, Los Alamos National Laboratory planetary scientist Wendy Caldwell and her team are using a supercomputer to study the composition and behavior of asteroids in space.

Caldwell's team is focusing on potentially hazardous asteroids, which are rocks that are the size of a building or larger and have a trajectory that sets them towards Earth.

“We can simulate an impact on an asteroid to determine, is it going to change its trajectory? Is it going to blow the asteroid apart? Is it going to do nothing, is it going to miss?” Caldwell said to KRQE.

Caldwell added that there are currently no asteroids headed towards Earth and that there is no cause for alarm.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory provided in-depth documentation regarding how asteroids’ composition determines how it will impact a planet’s surface. Caldwell's team has developed simulations to test the geology of asteroid 16 Psyche.  NASA will launch a mission to Psyche, its first visit to a metallic asteroid, in Aug. 2022 to investigate a crater approximately 33 miles wide and four miles deep in the massive asteroid.