Starring leading man Gerard Butler as John Garrity, the head of his fractured family trying to survive a comet strike on Mother Earth, 2020's " Greenland " was a totally enjoyable asteroid-based ...

NASA is considering going Armageddon on an asteroid that could crash into our Moon in 2032. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was earlier predicted to hit Earth, but later calculations put our planet in the safe zone ...

With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid ...

Late Cretaceous dinosaurs may have cut back vegetation, creating large floodplains. When the asteroid hit, those floodplains ...

On Nov. 24, 2021, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launched. The spacecraft was on its way to Dimorphos, part of a ...

Until recently, I assumed that the term “extinction burst” referred to the impact of the comet, asteroid or other ...

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say.

Earth is far from a static place. That's true in the present, but it's even more apparent when you look to the past, as Earth ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown asteroid impact, but the crater is still at large. The clues of this ...

In our own solar system, there are pretty good odds that you could stand on the surface of an asteroid and not even be able ...

A plan by a team of scientists suggests using nuclear explosive devices to prevent an asteroid, 2024 YR4, from striking the moon in 2032.