From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

After devastating the French Riviera in 2013, destroying Dhaka in 2015 and saving Tokyo in 2017, an international asteroid impact simulation ended Friday with its latest disaster - New York in ruins.

Earthquakes happen every day. According to the National Earthquake Information Centre, there are around 20,000 of them around the globe each year, amounting to approximately 55 quakes each day. Many ...

A new interactive map brings the 1998 film Deep Impact to life, allowing users to drop a space rock anywhere globally to watch the devastation unfold. Called Asteroid Launcher, the system lets you ...

NASA, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and their international partners are conducting planetary defense exercises for a potential asteroid impact. For over two decades, NASA’s Planetary ...

Nasa scientists and other world experts have failed to protect New York from a virtual asteroid that was part of a simulation of how the world would respond to such a disaster. Over the last week, ...

Of the thousands of space rocks whizzing through the solar system, there is one that has astronomers more worried than any other. Astronomers predict that the 500-metre-wide asteroid Bennu has a one ...

EVER wondered what would happen if an asteroid crashed into your local area? An expert has made a chilling simulator to see just how serious such an event would be in any part of the world. Please ...

The Great Flood released on Netflix on December 19. Starring Kim Da-Mi and Park Hae-Soo, the movie grabbed attention due to ...