Researchers discovered a 3.26-billion-year-old asteroid impact acted as 'giant fertilizer bomb,' aiding early microbial life.

Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...

According to experts, we should expect an asteroid large enough to cause serious damage to hit the Earth approximately every ...

"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 ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

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

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

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Aloft over the landscape of Bavaria some 147 million years ago was a pterosaur - an ancient flying reptile - with a wing span ...

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

NASA has raised a red alert for asteroid 2023 WK3, a massive space rock the size of a football stadium. Measuring 850 feet in diameter, it is travelling at an astonishing speed of 52,117 km/h. The ...