Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Earthlings can keep their plans seven years from now after scientists have officially declared Asteroid 2024 YR4 is not a threat to our planet. Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 by the ...

In the summer of 1998, two asteroid disaster films hit theaters just weeks apart. Armageddon and Deep Impact told nearly the same story: a massive asteroid is heading for Earth, and humanity races ...

The post Microbes Learned To Thrive In An Ancient Meteor Impact Crater And Mineral Formations Were The End Result first on TwistedSifter. Just under million years ago, an asteroid hit western Finland, ...

No need to brace for Armageddon just yet. After reaching seemingly apocalyptic levels yesterday, the odds of “city killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 striking our planet have dropped dramatically. NASA ...

Gordon Osinski receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Space Agency. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide with Earth ...

Researchers suggest the impact that created Arizona's Meteor Crater may have triggered a massive landslide in the Grand Canyon around 56,000 years ago. © Kring 2017 ...

View from the Grand Canyon's South Rim onto Nankoweap Delta. Remnants of a past natural dam created by a landslide are visible on the far side of the Colorado River, just to the left of the dry bed of ...