The asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk arrived without warning, injured 1,500 people and damaged thousands of buildings.

Scientists have identified the Bennu asteroid threat as the highest single-date impact probability for any known asteroid. The post Bennu Asteroid Could Hit Earth and Would Have Impact of 22 Atomic ...

Purdue planetary scientists Brandon Johnson and Alexandria Johnson discovered that the Chicxulub impact created a global dust ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The threat of a ...

A shattered asteroid may have unleashed a long-lasting cosmic barrage that left scars across the inner solar system and ...

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million ...

Debris from an Earth-bound asteroid may still be a problem – if it hits the Moon Atari made it look so simple: press a few buttons to move, rotate, vanish through hyperspace, fire missiles, and boom: ...

Dinosaurs roasted to death in a hellish “oven” created by superheated dust when an asteroid hit Earth 66m years ago, scientists believe.

Here’s the good news: If a near-Earth object (NEO) big enough to wipe out humanity entirely is ever on a collision course with our planet, we’re likely to find out about it a good while before it ...