More than a year into a very real crisis, experts gathered virtually to confront a second emergency, a potential asteroid impact — but this disaster, fortunately, was entirely hypothetical.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and cosmochemist Natalie Starkey recently discussed what would happen if the asteroid that caused the Chelyabinsk impact event hit a heavily-populated city instead.
Fictional crash tests the ways that disaster response and space agencies would deal with such a natural disaster
Space experts from several agencies failed to stop an asteroid fragment from wiping out New York City last week.
‘Tabletop exercise’ will ensure US government is ready to respond to any real asteroids that could be on their way to destroy us
In films like Armageddon, Hollywood has tried (and failed) to take on the question of what would happen if a comet or asteroid plunged into the oceans on Earth, but what has scientific research actually determined it may look like?
