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

Fortunately, we don’t have to brace for armageddon as none are on a collision ... Finn Burridge told the Daily Mail. The largest asteroid of the incoming quartet, 2002 NV16 (pictured), 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 ...

short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a $330 million project with echoes of the Bruce Willis movie “Armageddon ...

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 ...

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 ...