To mark the 10th anniversary of World Asteroid Day, a global live stream will showcase near-Earth asteroids and highlight ...

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

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

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

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

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

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

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

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

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

The cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub hit the Earth with a catastrophic impact, it obliterated the biggest and heaviest living ...

Earlier this year, a “city killer” asteroid made headlines for its slim chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA now says that ...