It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact.

In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts.

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.