One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited Earth for about 165 million years — got a nasty surprise: A roughly 9-mile-wide (15 kilometers) asteroid crashed into what is ...

Torres: 3.1 percent is not high but it is the highest risk level of a space rock crashing into us, ever. Except for the one ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea erupted for the 10th time since it burst to life on December 23, on Wednesday, February 19. The eruption occurred at the volcano’s summit crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released ...

About 35 million years ago, an asteroid struck the ocean off the East Coast of North America, leaving behind a massive impact ...

Scientists have detected several thousand earthquakes, the vast majority of them with small magnitudes, in just over two weeks near Greece’s volcanic island of ...

The best example may be a 6-mile-wide (10-kilometer-wide) asteroid that crashed into Earth, killed the dinosaurs and created Chicxulub crater about 65 million years ago. The NEOWISE mission started ...

These lunar giants were carved by cataclysmic events related to the formation of the Schrödinger basin, a massive impact crater about 200 miles wide (320 km). It formed by an impact 3.81 ...

The latest addition to the dinosaur franchise is set to be unleashed in the UK this July, arriving three years after the Jurassic World trilogy concluded. The script is penned by David Koepp who ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

Current estimates suggest that objects like the one which killed the dinosaurs only hit Earth every 50 million ... levelling forest across a city-sized patch of land. Meteor Crater in Arizona is ...