Sixty-six million years ago, this asteroid crashed into Earth and wiped out most of the life on our planet. Including the ...

Scientists already knew this could be a doozy. Astronomers previously estimated if 2024 YR4 hits the moon, it could form a ...

When a space rock big enough to end civilization shows up on the radar, the margin for philosophical debate shrinks fast. In the past few years, a once-taboo idea has moved from Hollywood fantasy into ...

On hearing the words "city killer" and "asteroid" in the same sentence, you'd be forgiven for thinking something bad is about to happen. But not to fear. Although an asteroid with the potential to ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the destructive power of asteroid impacts, are likely in relatively high ...