[Update Sept. 27, 2022 at 10 a.m. ET: NASA successfully crashed into the asteroid, a historic space event that you can watch.] The sci-fi-like endeavor is called the DART mission, or Double ...

Deflecting an asteroid with something like DART clearly ... Planetary defense experiments are inherently imaginative, almost sci-fi-esque, so the appeal to people of any political persuasion ...

Critic Bob Mondello says that remains true in Wes Anderson's first venture into science fiction, "Asteroid City." BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: 1955, a stargazer convention in the middle of the desert.

And in another, starship captains have to dodge a sudden asteroid that spontaneously appears in their path, threatening to down the vessel. Whatever the bugs are doing, they make it seem quite ...

Could asteroid mining make the first trillionaire? It sounds like a sci-fi dream: extracting gold, platinum, and rare metals from space rocks and bringing them back to Earth for unlimited wealth. But ...

The boxy, solar-winged craft is headed to the peculiar object for which it is named: 16 Psyche, an asteroid that appears to have an unusually high metal content. The complication surrounds a ...

This spectacular space opera was canceled twice despite being one of the most critically acclaimed sci-fi shows of all time.

The majority of these asteroids are located within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. However, there are also approximately 34,000 known near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) – and around 2,000 ...

“A large asteroid impact is potentially the only ... to permanently alter the path of Dimorphos, turning a wild science-fiction concept into a reality. Armed with copious amounts of information ...

Rather than drilling a nuclear weapon deep into an asteroid -- as depicted in the 1998 sci-fi action movie "Armageddon" -- this would likely involving detonating a bomb nearby. Last year ...