Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...

Or we could also just blow it up with a nuclear bomb. Rather than drilling a nuclear weapon deep into an asteroid—as depicted in the 1998 sci-fi action movie "Armageddon"—this would likely ...

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on top of a bluff, and the reason that bluff is there, it's part of the ...

One of the most talked-about techniques is using a nuclear weapon to destroy the asteroid. In the 1998 sci-fi hit, Armageddon, Bruce Willis uses a nuclear bomb to destroy an asteroid that ...

Last week, NASA announced that the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had been recalculated thanks to additional data, and now has a 0.28 per cent chance of collision in 2032, or about 1 in ...

The nuclear option Or we could also just blow it up with a nuclear bomb. Rather than drilling a nuclear weapon deep into an asteroid -- as depicted in the 1998 sci-fi action movie "Armageddon" -- this ...