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 ...

The few meteorites that did make it to the ground would have been small, not the city-destroying, tsunami-generating monsters ...

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 ...

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

AN ASTEROID THE size of a small truck has made one of the closest approaches to the planet ever recorded. Despite its ...

Past research proposed an asteroid or comet impact within an ocean in the Martian northern lowlands may have caused a mega-tsunami approximately 3.4 billion years ago. However, before the new ...

At that size, an impact wouldn’t threaten our species ... RELATED: Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered a global tsunami with mile-high waves ...

It goes without saying that anything in the immediate vicinity of the asteroid impact was utterly destroyed ... day central america caused a massive tsunami straight out of our worst nightmares.