Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.

Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists consider the chance extremely small.

The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that ...

"Picture yourself standing off the coast of Cape Cod, in a shelf of shallow water," said Nadja Drabon, an early Earth ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Scientists – led by experts from Nasa – have spent more than 10 years working out how to prevent a devastating asteroid ...

New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...

As It Happens6:19Meteorite that hit Earth 3 billion years ago dwarfed rock that caused dinosaur extinction: study Over three billion years ago, a meteorite bigger than the city of Toronto struck ...

Billions of years ago, when life as we know it was still in its earliest stages, Earth endured a period of intense meteorite ...

But dinosaurs were still a long time away from roaming Earth when S2 crashed down about 3.26 billion years ago. The meteorite was estimated to have been up to 200 times larger than the extinction ...