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

But, along with the contemporaneous Deep Impact, these movies brought ... worryingly close to Earth, and are considerably more likely to hit us. Fortunately, the larger asteroids are rarer than ...

It makes sense the genre is the go-to place for all kinds of stories as our reality slowly resembles something you’d see in a ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

The thought of a planet-killer-sized asteroid hitting Earth has captured the minds of both scientists and movie makers alike ...

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

While this scenario may sound like a made-for-TV science-fiction movie ... it would have to hit Apophis at exactly the right ...

What's the actual risk of one of these asteroids hitting Earth? Robin George Andrews ... If we were talking about a Hollywood movie, the scientists in the film would be discussing a nuclear ...

Up to 14, possibly “kilometer-class” space rocks could lurk within a long-feared stream of space debris known to drift near Earth. However, a recent hunt for large asteroids within the Taurid ...

RASCOE: Perhaps scenes from movies like "Armageddon" keep you up ... produce these X-rays and recorded their effects on two mock asteroids, roughly the size of Tic Tacs. MOORE: Not only does ...