Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring ...

Researchers found that night lizards survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous, despite ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Earth with devastating force, ending the reign of the dinosaurs and causing an apocalypse that reshaped the planet. Traveling ...

International Asteroid Day is observed to help people understand how dangerous it could be if an asteroid ever hit the Earth.

Chances of the space rock 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in December 2032 have been downgraded but debris could knock out ...

The United Nations formally adopted Asteroid Day in 2016. The decision followed a proposal from the Association of Space ...

There is a 1 in 2,700 chance the Bennu asteroid could hit Earth by 2182. An asteroid NASA's been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First ...

Ben Garrod and Alice Roberts investigate the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet – the sudden disappearance ...

A massive asteroid, expected to be larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, will pass close to Earth on June 5. Measuring between 1,017 and 2,264 feet, it is bigger than 97 per cent of ...

A colossal asteroid, larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, is set to pass near Earth on June 5, ranking among the top 3% in size.