We’re all used to Hollywood’s wildly varying predictions of the nature of fire and brimstone apocalypse may rain down on humanity. Of these, Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer’s 1998 blockbuster Armageddon starring Bruce Willis is perhaps the most instantly recognisable. The plotline, for the uninitiated, revolves around a team of […]

Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia wrote a letter on 21 February 2013 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev proposing to develop an international asteroid impact prevention system. The message stressed the seriousness of space threats and inability of modern methods of celestial bodies’ detection to predict meteorite strike, […]