An asteroid is expected to eventually hit Earth, highlighting the importance of preparing for such an event. This video explores various aspects of asteroids, including: - The catastrophic impact of ...

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them leaving huge scars in their wake.