In the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster "Armageddon," Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck race to save the Earth from being pulverized by an asteroid. While the Earth faces no such immediate danger, NASA plans to ...

With asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close by Earth yesterday, this rather unsettlingly near flyby has many people wondering if we would be able to divert an asteroid that was heading for an intersection ...

That is the question addressed by Carusi and colleagues in a study published in the April issue of Icarus, a leading international journal in the planetary sciences. They conducted case studies of two ...

A new paper explains why detonating nuclear weapons is the only way to deflect an asteroid. We can disrupt (blow up) or deflect (redirect) asteroids. Scientists say deflection is safer and more ...