When a city-size asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs — and sent a monster tsunami rippling around the planet, according to new research. The asteroid, about ...

Tsunamis are powerful ocean waves caused by a variety of factors like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, or even ...

The risk that the asteroid 2024 YR4 hits Earth has risen to the highest level scientists have ever recorded - now computers say it may be even higher. Instead of just the 3.1 percent chance of hitting ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

Over the past few generations, the world has experienced countless devastating natural disasters; but few are as sudden and ...