A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors ...

The 1998 sci-fi classic Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster got one thing right – we really could nuke an ...

For decades, the idea of saving Earth from an incoming asteroid with nuclear weapons lived mostly in popcorn cinema, a fantasy of oil drillers and last‑minute heroics. Now a new generation of physics ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that without launching nukes into space means getting creative. One day, in the ...