While NASA has proved it can deflect a killer asteroid off a path toward Earth, scientists are working on a Plan B - and it includes a nuclear bomb. California researchers have developed a simulation ...

While there are no known significant asteroids on a collision course with Earth, an asteroid impact is considered inevitable in our planet's future. The potential impact could still be millions of ...

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 ...

Space agencies around the world took part in a NASA simulation of an asteroid-impact scenario. The experts who participated learned about a fictitious asteroid's trajectory and had to react. They ...

EARTH is really not ready for a killer asteroid, experts have warned after running a drill of the devastating scenario. Nasa has carried out a simulation to test how decision makers would react should ...

While there are no known significant asteroids on a collision course with Earth, an asteroid impact is considered inevitable in our planet's future. The potential impact could still be millions of ...

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Sixty-six million years ago, this asteroid crashed into Earth and wiped out most of the life on our planet. Including the biggest, baddest things that ever roamed the planet. Yeah, dinosaurs. If a ...

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 ...

A new model has revealed that a mega volcano eruption drove the dinosaurs to extinction — not the infamous Chicxulub meteor that smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula over 66 million years ago.