Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and ...

The possibility of “city-killing” asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth has doubled within the last few weeks, just like something out of a sci-fi movie. The asteroid, big enough to wipe out an ...

Nathan Moore of the Sandia National Laboratories details a possible new method to stop a dangerous asteroid from hitting the earth: a burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion.

Asteroid 2024 YR4’s odds of hitting Earth in 2032 are now effectively zero. ... And while movies have speculated about such missions, no human agency has yet carried off such a feat.

An asteroid has a 2.3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 ... There is a classic 1998 movie about sending American oilmen up to an asteroid on a collision course with Earth to Drill Baby ...