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

Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destroy a city on Earth. How to Kill an Asteroid by ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Over 3 billion years ago the S2 impact event occurred on Earth, boiling the oceans. But in new research, scientists found it ...

A new European Space Agency mission is set to study asteroid Apophis to learn more about how we can handle asteroid threats ...

They predict that dozens of "planet killer" asteroids ... Madrid and Algeria and killing 10 million people. In 2004, an asteroid dubbed Apophis, after the Egyptian god of Chaos, was predicted ...

With that insight, scientists have some plans in place to deal with a potential apocalyptic catastrophe in case a planet-killing asteroid rains down on the planet. An artist's impression of a ...

Just moments before an asteroid the size of Texas careened into the planet, killing everyone and everything on it, that oil driller-turned-astronaut sacrificed himself; with a press of a red ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal ...

and scientists previously found evidence that a particularly monstrous object struck our planet some 3.26 billion years ago. It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid.