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.

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

[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 ...

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 ...

An asteroid crashing into Earth may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but experts warn it’s a real threat—and we may ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...