Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

Imagine a world where dinosaurs and humans coexist. This might have happened had the asteroid not hit Earth millions of years ago.

The Silverpit Crater was confirmed as an asteroid impact site. Shocked crystals and seismic data prove the event created a huge tsunami. For decades, scientists have debated the origin of the ...

Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and ...

What if the same asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit Earth again? Could we survive—or face extinction? Discover this explosive scenario in late January.

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

"If an asteroid was tumbling toward us, and we knew we had to move it a specific amount to prevent it from hitting Earth, then all these subtleties become very, very important," Jessica Sunshine, a ...