It is the first global simulation of the Chicxulub asteroid impact tsunami. In addition to showing the conditions in which ...

The asteroid not only create a fireball and the Chicxulub crater underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, it triggered a ...

Studies have shown that the planet-wide mega-Tsunami killed roughly three-quarters of the planet’s plant and animal species.

A truck-sized asteroid that suddenly loomed out of the darkness a few days ago -- with the Earth in its sights -- sailed ...

The rock, which was spotted for the first time on Saturday by an amateur stargazer in Crimea, came closest to the southern ...

At its nearest point, the asteroid was just 2,200 miles from Earth's surface — just a quarter of the height of many of the ...

The Scout impact hazard assessment system at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) quickly calculated the asteroid's orbit using the limited data from the observatories. Scout determined it would ...

tsunami-generating monsters of the movie Deep Impact. The close call will leave a more lasting impact on the asteroid itself, Nasa’s number-crunchers said. Earth’s gravity will affect the ...

BU, which was first spotted on Saturday, whizzed past without incident - and would likely have not made much of an impact had ...