A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

Dr Kelly Fast is the space agency’s acting NASA Planetary Defense officer and will explain the technologies being created to ...

Cover Media US Armageddon Out Of Here! Earth Is Saved From Feared Asteroid Strike Posted: February 25, 2025 | Last updated: February 25, 2025 Astronomers have concluded that the Earth is safe from ...

Hollywood megastar Bruce, 69, starred in the 1998 blockbuster Armageddon in which he lead a crew of deep-core drillers sent ...

An asteroid is hurtling towards Earth and humankind must band together to avert catastrophe. Movie clip: "The bible calls this day armageddon: the end of all things. And yet, for the first time in ...

The upshot, in an "Armageddon" context ... because for a century it appeared that there were no asteroids in the asteroid belt that exhibited this pattern, as well as at other seemingly arbitrary ...

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 ...

When the universe gives you asteroid lemons, you should make science lemonade. The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of ...

Image of the asteroid 2024 YR4 taken by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in January 2025, observed at infrared wavelengths. | Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered ...

Asteroid expert Gretchen Benedix looks at nine asteroid disasters from movies and TV and rates them based on realism. She looks at "Armageddon" (1998), "Greenland" (2020), "Deep Impact" (1998 ...

Nasa says there is a small chance a recently spotted asteroid could collide with the Moon. Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future. Each year, according to Nasa ...