For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

Around 66 million years ago, a 12-kilometre-wide asteroid travelling at 43,000 km/h crashed into Earth, triggering one of the ...

But in this case the wrecking ball is a man-made, fundamentally unfair tax policy threaded into the 900–plus page One Big ...

Astronomers are observing asteroid 2024 YR4. It may hit the Moon in 2032. A lunar impact could send debris toward Earth. This ...

After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the moon — by blowing it up with nukes.

North Carolina experienced massive tsunami during late Eocene due to extraterrestrial impact: Researchers say Analysis of ...

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The Ottawa Citizen's Andrew Duffy and Eganville Leader's Gerald Tracey reflect on long careers in a wonderful, troubled ...

If that fails, scientists suggest preparing a nuclear option. Detonating a rocket-delivered nuke on or near the asteroid ...

A mysterious cosmic object is racing through our solar system at breakneck speed — and scientists have just confirmed it ...