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 ...

A new study claims that the dino-killing asteroid believed to have completely wiped out the dinosaurs may have also caused a global tsunami that reset all oceanic sediment records at the time.

Over 3 billion years ago the S2 impact event occurred on Earth, boiling the oceans. But in new research, scientists found it ...

you have a giant tsunami sweeping by and ripping up the sea floor." There is probably no better example of the destructive power of space rocks upon our planet than the asteroid that killed the ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

The meteorite was estimated to have been up to 200 times larger than the extinction-inducing Chicxulub asteroid. That massive size made it plenty large enough to trigger a devastating tsunami ...

A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then helped it heal ...

Scientists predict that the asteroid Apophis may undergo significant surface changes when it makes its close approach to Earth in 2029, according to a new study. The asteroid, named after the ...

Volcanic eruptions, submarine landslides, and coastal rock falls can also generate a tsunami, as can a large asteroid impacting the ocean. They originate from a vertical movement of the sea floor ...

"The tsunami, atmospheric heating ... called the Barberton Greenstone Belt. The asteroid that hit Earth some 3.26 billion years ago was many times the size of Mount Everest.