And these developments naturally have a significant impact on the profitability of asteroid mining. Movies like Armageddon, ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

Nasa discovers an asteroid the size of Texas is on a collision course with Earth, so a drilling expert is recruited to train ...

Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...

A close flyby of an asteroid as large as Apophis happens only once every 5,000 to 10,000 years. Scientists plan to learn all they can.

The worst sci-fi movie of all time, according to science, is Roland Emmerich's 'Moonfall'. Neil Degrasse Tyson now thinks it has surpassed 'Armageddon'.

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis.

Armageddon may be a bombastic work of fiction. But planetary defense is real: while an increasingly advanced array of asteroid-hunting observatories diligently and constantly keeps its eyes on the ...

FOR a generation of scientists – and science fiction fans – Hollywood movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact have helped shape and scare society. The risk of an asteroid wreaking havoc on our ...

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Fortunately, we don’t have to brace for armageddon as none are on a collision ... Finn Burridge told the Daily Mail. The largest asteroid of the incoming quartet, 2002 NV16 (pictured), will ...