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 ...

Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

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

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

Projectiles flying faster than bullets from a blast 130 times bigger than the global nuclear stockpile helped form giant lunar canyons, according to a new study.

The most notable of these is the catastrophic Chicxulub impact, which happened around 66 million ... exploded in the atmosphere over a sparsely populated region of Russia, the blast flattened an ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

In December, Ukraine took credit for the killing of Russian General Igor Kirillov in a bomb blast outside a Moscow apartment building. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine on Monday's blast.

An arctic blast looming across much of the U.S. will cause temperatures to plummet by 30 to 40 degrees this weekend and into next week, bringing a hazardous freeze from parts of the Midwest to the ...

The most potent blast will enter the north-central U.S. on Friday, the National Weather Service warned, before roaring across much of the rest of the nation over the weekend. Arctic air will ...