Scientists see this as a much more favorable alternative to nuclear deflection, which would use a powerful nuclear bomb to ...

Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China's largest rockets to practice turning away a sizable asteroid - a technique that may eventually be crucial if a killer rock is on a collision ...

We might go full “Armageddon” on asteroid 2024 YR4. After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the ...

In Armageddon, NASA discovers that an asteroid will impact the planet in 18 days and make humanity go the way of the dinosaurs. They devise a plan to drill a hole in the asteroid and drop in a nuke, ...

Astronomers, planetary scientists and astrophysicists have long known about the risks posed to humanity by rogue asteroids. Over the last ten years, an international cohort of scientists and amateur ...

In a mission that evokes images of the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA next month will launch a spacecraft that it plans to deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the hopes of testing planetary ...