Hollywood films would have you believe that the best way to deal with an Earth-threatening asteroid is to blast it out of ...

New simulations reveal that the climate, atmospheric chemistry and even global photosynthesis would be dramatically disrupted by an asteroid collision ...

The hunt is on in Hawke’s Bay for New Zealand’s 11th meteorite after a fireball was filmed streaking across the night sky. And one meteorite-hunter believes someone’s securi ...

Meteors: When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

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

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A massive 150-foot airplane-sized asteroid is set to pass Earth tomorrow, prompting NASA to issue a cautionary alert., ...