Facebook X Reddit Email Save. In anticipation of the 25-year-anniversary of “Deep Impact,” Dr. Clark R. Chapman and his wife Y Chapman decided to rewatch the classic sci-fi disaster flick.

Deep Impact, by contrast, has largely slipped under the radar as “the other asteroid movie.” In point of fact, the asteroid in Deep Impact is actually a comet, but we digress.

Deep Impact features widespread destruction on the planet Earth, but unlike Armageddon, it reserves its visual effects for important moments, and when the CGI does fill the frame it's an awe- ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Over the past five years, three space missions — Deep Impact, Deep Space 1 and Stardust — have provided unprecedented information about comets. However, rather than ...

Deep Impact's goal was to study the hot Jupiters to see if gravity from such unseen planets might be tugging on the orbits of the known worlds, causing them to wobble slightly.

“Deep Impact” begins with the title card slowly dissolving into the heavens as we hear the ethereal, almost magical sounds of an orchestra, as if something world-shattering is about to occur.

In the summer of 1998, Hollywood offered up not one, but two blockbuster films about asteroids hurtling towards Earth. Released on May 8 of that year, Deep Impact, directed by Mimi Leder, told a ...

Originally released on May 8, 1998, DEEP IMPACT grossed nearly $350 million worldwide on an $80 million budget. A unique and dynamic fusion of large-scale excitement with touching personal ...