In the NASA plan to deal with a killer asteroid destroying the world, the first people to learn ... SEE ALSO: Meteorite impact zone in Australia may be the largest ever discovered There's a ...

An asteroid impact is one facet of that. The universe is such an amazing place to explore. There are beautiful things, but ...

An asteroid is hurtling ... Could this mean the end of the world? Well, not quite. But Professor Davis says it would be no insignificant impact either. "So it's a serious-sized object.

Worse yet, the space agency suggests the asteroid could hit densely populated areas of our planet — if it were to make an impact just under eight years from now, that is. "In the unlikely event ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

Amassive asteroid impact is likely to blame for the extinction event that marks the end of the Cretaceous period, according to a study published today (January 17) in Science. Researchers led by ...

For years, big budget science fiction flicks have shown us highly stylized end-of-the-world scenarios involving ... as they simulate a full-scale asteroid impact scenario. The idea is to test ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the ... that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic end. For months, scientists conclude, dense ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the ... causing an “impact winter” that lasted ...