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World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...
The bold question-askers at What If talk with Bill Nye about why blowing up asteroids may be the worst defense strategy.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.
Movies like 'Deep Impact' and 'Armageddon' are Hollywood action adventure movies which sees the world threatened by complete ...
A team of oil drillers is sent into space to destroy a Texas-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. Explosive, emotional, and pure ‘90s drama. A more grounded take on the end of the world, this film ...
Gerard Butler is better known for his roles in fantasy movies like 300, but he's just as good in intense modern action ...
Alec Nevala-Lee’s biography revisits the life and career of the Nobel laureate physicist.
Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and ...
By Wes Anderson's second feature, Rushmore, he pretty much had things figured out. At one point in that film, Herman Blume ...
Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.
The NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our knowledge of the solar system's "small bodies"—asteroids, comets and other minor planets.. The Rubin Observatory, under ...
With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.