Asteroid wider than football pitch could collide with Earth

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...