William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

A direct hit could be as if a 10-megaton nuclear bomb struck Earth ... On Friday, a chilling simulation showed what would happen if the city-killing asteroid did hit Earth. Created by 3D ...

Delve into the history of the proposed missile base in Bainbridge Island and the fight put up by its residents to protect ...

For example, the option to set off the nuke in the middle of Megaton City in the "Power of the Atom" quest was entirely removed from the Japanese release, alongside the character of Mr. Burke.

The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start worrying?

“It’s a city-killer, that’s what it is,” said Fieber-Beyer ... Its impact on Earth could be as powerful as a 75 megaton ...

Research suggests that free-moving panels on aircraft wings can improve stability, reduce turbulence, and add fuel efficiency ...

A large city would be severely damaged ... Or, maybe, they’d opt to try and vaporize the asteroid with something like a 1 megaton nuke, which LLNL says would work with an asteroid this size.

Once the new measurements were taken and the math was done, the probability of YR4 hitting the Earth began to decline, ...