A recently-discovered asteroid, which is estimated to be between 130ft and 330ft in diameter, could strike Planet Earth in ...

Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4 ... It sounds like something from a bad Hollywood movie. But in reality, there’s no need to panic – this is just another ...

Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

Something in the sky captured the attention of astronomers in the final days of 2024. A telescope in Chile scanning the night sky detected a faint point of light, and it didn't correspond to any ...

"We might even have to consider the severe measures of sending up a nuclear weapon to the surface of this asteroid in order to deflect it further." This plan echoes that of the 1998 disaster movie ...

A giant asteroid hurtling towards Earth could wipe out Ireland with a series of devastating earthquakes or massive tsunamis, ...

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While the idea of sending a nuclear weapon into space to stop a potentially deadly asteroid sounds like fiction thanks to movies like Armageddon, it is one of the options available to scientists.

AN asteroid the size of a football pitch cannot ... explaining that the use of a nuclear bomb would not be like the disaster movie. He told The Telegraph: "It is a lot more complex with a nuclear ...