Unfortunately, an enormous asteroid was about to hit our planet ... Then all of a sudden, you have a giant tsunami sweeping by and ripping up the sea floor,” Nadja Drabon, an early-Earth ...

The huge asteroid that hit Earth and wiped out the ... It would have been a “catastrophic event”, the scientists say, causing a tsunami at least 800m high to tear across the Atlantic ocean.

A small asteroid careened toward Earth before burning up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky witnessed across the region. The space rock, which was ...

The resulting tsunami, earthquakes and wildfires were powerful and destructive. The biggest damage? The asteroid’s impact flung large amounts of cooling gases and soot into the atmosphere ...

"A tsunami would have taken at least 17 or more ... finding an anomalous concentration of iridium - the fingerprint of an asteroid or comet," said Prof Alvarez. "Since then, the evidence has ...

EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — The National Weather Service cancels tsunami warning for the U.S. West Coast after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

The mission will see its spacecraft, Vestri, dock on the company’s target near-Earth asteroid, whose identity remains unknown. The company announced the new mission alongside details of $40 ...

On impact, the research shows, the Chicxulub asteroid - which was more than 6 miles wide - sparked wildfires that stretched for hundreds of miles, triggered a mile-high tsunami, and released ...

A small asteroid careened toward Earth before burning up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky witnessed across the region. The space rock ...