The Ohio Players were an American funk, soul music and R&B band, most popular in the 1970s. They are best known for their songs Fire and Love Rollercoaster.
A spaceship with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen will blow up quite well in the vacuum of space. Chemical explosives will also explode in space since they function by breaking weakly bonded chemical components; no oxygen is necessary. Nuclear explosions can of course occur in space, too.
The US space agency has even said it knows of no significant rock that could hit for several hundreds of years. An investigation by Express.co.uk discovered they must have been referring to the asteroid called 1950 AD-a giant rock which it is feared could hit Earth in 2880.