In the 1998 movie 'Armageddon,' an asteroid the size of Texas threatens to collide with Earth in 18 days. Despite its entertainment value, the film is fantastically inaccurate, astronomer Phil ...

And then there was Michael Bay's Armageddon-- an asteroid movie for the red states. Ignoring science, Bay casually devastated New York and Paris with a meteor shower (take that, liberal elites!).

It's been 25 years since two of Hollywood's biggest asteroid films, Armageddon and Deep Impact, hit theaters. Though no one is denying their entertainment value, scientists say their depictions of ...

Like most films directed by Michael Bay, "Armageddon" has a simple plot with massive stakes: An asteroid the size of Texas is discovered heading on a collision course with Earth, threatening to ...

E arth is not yet staring down a doomsday asteroid scenario like the one in Armageddon, but scientists are taking steps to ensure the planet is prepared. On Monday, NASA will conduct an end-of-the ...

In a mission straight out of Armageddon, NASA will purposely crash a spaceship into an asteroid Monday evening in the hope of changing its orbit. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART for ...

“Armageddon,” directed by Michael Bay, starred Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck as oil drillers who flew to an asteroid and blew it up to prevent the space rock from impacting Earth, killing all life.

Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tech that could potentially stave off armageddon in the future.

They hope the data could help prepare them should an Armageddon-style deflection mission be required. Asteroid samples from the OSIRIS-REx mission will reach Earth this week, touching down in the ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that without launching nukes into space means getting creative. One day ...

Devastating asteroid collisions are incredibly rare, with the catastrophic 6-mile wide rock that wiped out the dinosaurs dropping on the earth 66 million years ago. However, smaller asteroids can ...