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 ...

Cover Media US. Armageddon Out Of Here! Earth Is Saved From Feared Asteroid Strike. Posted: February 25, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025. Astronomers have concluded that the Earth is safe from ...

Astronomers have concluded that the Earth is safe from an asteroid that threatened to cause havoc by striking the Earth in 2032. New observations of the 2024 YR4 asteroid conducted with the European ...

Here’s the problem with that Armageddon scenario: the largest bomb ever detonated in the history of bomb detonation was 418,000 terajoules. So bomb makers have quite a ways to go before they ...

The exercise, held every two years, lets concerned agencies game out response plans for potentially catastrophic asteroid impacts. The fictional scenario this year involved a newly-discovered ...

The problem is that a nuclear deflection would need to be done in a very precise way or else it could lead (as it did in “Armageddon”) to chunks of the asteroid hitting Earth anyway.

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 ...

Colwell wondered why the "Armageddon" asteroid could not have simply been as big as the famous one that killed the dinosaurs. "One could conceivably blow up something that large.

An asteroid the size of a box truck is slated to get very close to Earth this week, according to scientists. But don't be alarmed, it isn't projected to make an impact and cause Armageddon ...

(AP) — A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth, like in the 1998 movie “Armageddon.” ...

how effectively did we move the asteroid, and can this technique of kinetic impact be used in the future if we ever needed to?" Unlike Hollywood thrillers like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact ...