When NASA smashed the asteroid Dimorphos with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft in 2022 on purpose, it was seen as a technological triumph because it demonstrated that humans can ...

When the ancient 'God of Chaos' asteroid skims close to Earth it could have a major reaction and be transformed.

Over 3 billion years ago the S2 impact event occurred on Earth, boiling the oceans. But in new research, scientists found it ...

"Picture yourself standing off the coast of Cape Cod, in a shelf of shallow water. It's a low-energy environment without strong currents. Then, all of a sudden, you have a giant tsunami sweeping by ...

Even larger objects can cause extinction-level events, such as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs over 66 million years ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

A school-bus-sized asteroid will pass by Earth this Wednesday, November 13, 2024, coming closer than the moon.

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

Officials at the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University were hoping to open this fall after a summer opening was ...

Artist's rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere ... Cockroaches have already overcome odds that were too great for dinosaurs. If another meteorite hit the Earth, I ...

Researchers unearthed the skull of a previously unknown starling-sized bird species named Navaornis hestiae that was so well ...