Movies like Armageddon, which show Bruce Willis and his team bringing super-heavy drilling machines onto an asteroid, have ...

The machine is the largest pulsed power device ... There are other proposals for deflecting or destroying dangerous asteroids. In March last year, NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into the surface ...

As for the two other asteroids that were been detected within hours of impacting Earth in 2024, the first is known as 2024 BX1. It measured around 3.3 feet wide (1 meter) and burned up harmlessly ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. California-based AstroForge will ramp up its bid to commercialize ...

Two of these asteroids — 2024 TP17 and 2024 TR6 — were only discovered earlier this month, just weeks before their “world tour.” Getty Images Following close behind will be the 150-foot ...

Four large asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth on Thursday, each passing by the planet within a 24-hour time frame. Two had already zipped past early in the morning, according to ...

For all its simplicity, the arcade classic Asteroids was engaging in the extreme, with the ping of the laser, the rumble of the rocket, the crash of crumbling space rocks, and that crazy warble ...

Moore and scientists created experiments using Sandia’s Z machine to monitor the deflection of synthetic asteroids subjected ...

Z Machine Nathan Moore at Sandia National Laboratories with ... To better defend ourselves against these threats, planetary scientists have investigated how the paths of asteroids could be deflected ...

Don't look up! No seriously, don't bother. None of the five asteroids are big enough to see from Earth. © NASA A quintet of asteroids will all come close to Earth on ...

Material harvested from asteroids could be used to sustain astronauts during long-duration space missions. Researchers from Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration have ...

Four large asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth on Thursday, each passing by the planet within a 24-hour time frame. Two had already zipped past early in the morning, according to ...