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 ...

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 ...

A newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than 1% chance of colliding with Earth in ...

YR4, an asteroid that currently has a more than 1 percent chance to hit the Earth in 2032, catching the attention of ...

A newly-discovered asteroid has a small chance of colliding with Earth in 2032, space agency officials have said. The 330ft space rock, which is roughly the size of the London Eye, is currently headin ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday.

New research suggests the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid may have caused a milder impact winter than previously thought, reshaping our understanding of the mass extinction event.

Key events include the Tunguska Event, the Chelyabinsk Event, the Barringer Crater, the Chesapeake Bay ... While just the idea of an asteroid impact seems like the stuff of science fiction ...