A CHILLING simulation video has revealed the devastating impact a ‘city-killer’ asteroid would have if it hit Earth. Asteroid ...

Can America survive this meteor shower? Maybe — if we stay focused, get organized, show up, support good candidates, write ...

One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the ...

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

The newly-discovered Asteroid 2024 YR is being taken seriously by scientists at NASA who say it's got a legit shot at ...

Bennu, which comes closest to Earth every six years at a distance of 299,000 km, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, is currently on its close approach to our planet every six years at a distance of about 186,000 miles (299,000 km). However, scientists warn ...

The impact of a Bennu-sized object — a medium-sized asteroid — on Earth's land surface would generate a powerful shockwave, earthquakes, wildfires and thermal radiation, leave a gaping crater and ...

The gigantic cataclysm, which released energy 130 times more powerful than the detonation of the entire world’s atomic ...

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football ... rather than leaving a crater on the ground. "We can calculate the energy... using the mass and the speed ...

Alternatively, it could remain intact during the descent and slam into the ground, creating a massive crater and decimating human communities in the impact zone. Asteroid 2024 YR4 shot to the ...

CNN reports how new research from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center published to “Nature” has revealed that samples from the near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, contains organic compounds and ...