Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic ...

Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving just that. Once flagged for a potential Earth impact, this 200-foot-wide ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Get ready for the most anticipated meteor shower of the year, coming to a night sky near you! The Perseids meteor show is known for a high rate of brightly colored meteor streaks and less frequent but ...

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

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The Incredible Hulk is one of Marvel's most powerful heroes and his biggest Hulk Smash moments have caused world-breaking damage.