The fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite was no ordinary event. It came from a nearly vertical angle, about 81 degrees steep, ...

Australia, who might have in mind such Hollywood asteroid disaster movies as Armageddon and Deep Impact. "Asteroid impacts are a genuine concern. We know that they can have quite destructive effects.

and earthquake zones. One dramatic example occurred millions of years ago when an asteroid impact triggered a mile-high mega-tsunami during the time of the dinosaurs, leaving traces scientists still ...

we estimated that the primary impacting asteroid had a size of roughly 2.5 — 3.1 miles in diameter and formed a crater some 31 — 40 miles in diameter. Such an impact is really devastating ...

When an asteroid struck Earth some 66 million years ... Some forest pollen disappeared after the impact, suggesting that the regions’ vegetation changed. Then the pollen slowly began to reemerge ...

The asteroid is about the size of a 10-story building, according to researchers. “In the unlikely event that 2024 YR4 is on an impact trajectory, the impact would occur somewhere along a risk ...