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 ...

So here's a shocker: It turns out the 1998 asteroid disaster movie "Armageddon" was a tad unrealistic. In the film, a team led by Bruce Willis plants a nuclear bomb deep inside a 600-mile-wide (1,000 ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming ...

Michael Bay wasn’t remotely worried about the science in his 1998 science-fiction action hit that launched an elite ensemble cast to space. Michael Bay wasn’t remotely worried about the science in his ...