On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

CHINA is assembling a planetary defence team after a giant “city-killer” asteroid was discovered hurtling towards Earth. The ...

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

A brief tsunami warning was issued for Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands on Saturday ...

The world’s largest atomic bomb was exploded by the Russians north of the Arctic Circle in 1961. It was equivalent to 2,500 Hiroshima A-bombs. The fireball was 5 miles in diameter and could ...

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

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater ... unless it happens near a coastline triggering a tsunami.

Dread engulfed her little body when the monkeys stopped chattering. On a Christmas vacation with her family, the 10-year-old girl loved how the monkeys seemed to be everywhere on the small ...

20 years on from the Boxing Day tsunami, The Impossible Show ... The three men behind organising it had never put on a show of this size and magnitude, never mind in just a few weeks.

This is the moment a beachfront was left covered in sea foam as Storm Herminia powered across Britain, bringing 80mph gusts. Forecasters on Sunday night also warned of a new 'separate threat ...

That’s essentially the advice Japan’s government had for the wave of Aussie tourists flooding into its heaving hotspots this holiday season. Obviously, they put it more politely than that.