The simulation, exploring what would happen if a 500-kilometre-wide asteroid collided with Earth, doesn’t really make for cosy viewing.
If you’re playing catch-up, you should know that yesterday, roughly seven million miles from Earth, a NASA spacecraft crashed head-on into an asteroid.
NASA’s ‘Armageddon’ moment. CT Airport running out of fuel. Putin heads to secret palace. Anna Wintour feuds with protégé. Brad and Emily rumours.
The Doomsday Clock, established 75 years ago by scientists to illustrate the threat to human extinction, is ticking close to disaster.
NASA’s ‘Armageddon’ mission. Shell’s Wild Coast plans hit backlash. Jozi gets DA mayor. Maradona buried without heart. Adele mocks exes.
Seven people spent the last nine years hiding out in their basement waiting for the Rapture. Everything about this story is odd.
In a truly odd tale, a group of naked people kidnapped their neighbours and then crashed their car in an effort to escape the end of the world.
Sadly we can’t rely on Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to protect us against an asteroid, but it looks like NASA are stepping up to the plate.
Nowadays it’s pretty in to be a bit of a doomsayer, but that might have something to do with “mean world syndrome”. Yeah, it’s a real thing.
Mmmm, Sunday nights + Carte Blanche are a South African institution. You don’t get between the two, and this Sunday will be a prime example.
Part human, part robot, full genius – Stephen Hawking has revealed what he thinks will signal the end of the human race and it’s not what you might expect.
NASA will start training a team astronauts to land on an asteroid in the next month, in preparation for a mission that will take humans farther from Earth than ever before. They’ll be collecting mineral samples and determining how to destroy an asteroid in the event that it might collide with the Earth. Seriously.