Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

In a recent simulation, a fictitious asteroid was approaching Earth but experts couldn't stop it. NASA has led seven such simulations, and the participants only fully stopped the asteroid once. It ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if an asteroid slammed into your city or town? Well, a new app called Asteroid Launcher lets you see just that. The app was created by developer Neal ...

A new asteroid impact simulator from creative coder Neal Agarwal is as entertaining as it is terrifying. Asteroid Launcher does what it says on the tin and lets you launch a space rock at Earth to see ...

An international group of space experts have been bested by a hypothetical asteroid. Again. In a planetary-defense simulation that NASA led last month, more than 200 participants from about two dozen ...