According to their research, the gas ball would be able to nudge the asteroid off course ... Willis’ approach in the popular 90s movie Armageddon, where he dropped a bomb down a drill hole.

An curved arrow pointing right. Nuking an asteroid on its path to annihilating Earth is a terrible idea. Sorry Bruce Willis. Produced by Justin Gmoser and Jessica Orwig Follow BI Video ...

That's probably why the near-approach of an asteroid to Earth sounds scary. People tend to recall movies like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact." Not to mention the notorious chunk of rock that hit ...

(NewsNation) — Scientists say an asteroid known as the “God of Chaos ... in space What would it take for Apophis to set us on ...

Asteroid expert Gretchen Benedix looks at nine asteroid disasters from movies and TV and rates them based on realism. She looks at "Armageddon" (1998), "Greenland" (2020), "Deep Impact" (1998 ...

In "Armageddon," a catastrophic meteor shower destroys the Space Shuttle Atlantis and devastates parts of the world. NASA discovers that a Texas-sized asteroid is on a collision course with Earth ...

However, there are other ideas, including moving the asteroid more slowly over time and even detonating a nuclear bomb - an option familiar from Hollywood movies such as Armageddon and Deep Impact.