A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

These four rock stars are embarking on a world tour. NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will ...

According to their research, the gas ball would be able to nudge the asteroid off course ... Willis’ approach in the popular 90s movie Armageddon, where he dropped a bomb down a drill hole.

Armageddon may be a bombastic work of fiction. But planetary defense is real: while an increasingly advanced array of asteroid-hunting observatories diligently and constantly keeps its eyes on the ...

Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destroy a city on Earth. How to Kill an Asteroid by ...

Another alternative to the 1,000 spacecraft mission would mean going full ‘Armageddon,’ as in the 1998 sci-fi action flick, and nuking the asteroid before it smashes into Earth. NASA’s ...

The second option is a scene straight from the blockbuster film Armageddon - and involves going ... the character is sent to space to blow up an Asteroid on course to smash into Earth with a ...

I grew up watching Armageddon and Deep Impact as a nerdy ... life NASA mission compare to some of the movies that portray asteroid collisions? Andrews: It was super surreal, and it felt more ...

When the roughly 10-kilometre wide Chicxulub asteroid struck the Yucatan peninsula ... famously depicted in the 1998 sci-fi action movie "Armageddon". In the movie, Bruce Willis and a plucky ...

A new study from Sandia National Laboratories focuses on how X-rays from a nuclear explosion could impact an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The studies show that these X-rays might ...

Top researchers may have just uncovered a new way to combat catastrophic asteroids strikes – and you may recognise one of their methods from the silver screen. Scientists have been following in ...