The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

“Giant Asteroid” has been a popular also-ran in the last three presidential elections, at least judging from bumper stickers, and those wiseacres who preferred planetary annihilation to Hillary, Biden ...

Chicxulub impact megaripples mapped deep beneath Louisiana’s surface 3D seismic data shows tsunami-driven formations spanning 900 sq miles Ripples help scientists study ancient tsunamis and future ...

Fortunately, thanks to the Earth's atmosphere acting as a natural shield, instead of crash landing on the ground, the asteroid burns up and produces an impressive light show, streaking across the ...

As the velocity of the tsunami abated, the thixotropic muds maintained ... demonstrating the effect of such a giant asteroid impact on the Earth, more study is needed to figure out the exact ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

Researchers believe an earthquake following the asteroid impact first fluidised a layer of sediment, which was then shaped by high-speed tsunami waves. The map reveals that the long, asymmetrical ...

March 11 has been a tough day in the world’s history. On this day in 2011, a major earthquake and a subsequent tsunami caused a nuclear accident in Japan. It was the second worst nuclear accident the ...

The incredible aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact—one of the most cataclysmic events in Earth’s history—is unfolding beneath the seafloor of Louisiana. New research has uncovered massive ...

Previous studies have found that the nearly 10km-wide asteroid that slammed into the water near what is now Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula triggered a massive tsunami unlike anything ever documented.