Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that "city-killer" asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while astronomers warn that the moon could be in the line of fire as well.

This colossal asteroid, comparable in size to a soccer field, could blaze toward our planet at speeds reaching 38,000 mph. The rock is currently tracking along an "impact corridor" that risks ...

The Cambrian Explosion: For most of the nearly 4 billion years that life has existed on Earth, evolution produced little beyond bacteria, plankton, and multi-celled algae.But beginning about 600 ...

The discovery of a debris disk formed in the aftermath of a supernova explosion helps explain how planets can form around dead stars.

Nature reports on an Italian scientist’s striking discovery of a planet that seems to have survived the explosion of its own sun. Not that the experience would have been pleasant, mind you. Over ...

MIAMI - On July 6th 2019, a gas explosion at a former restaurant in a Plantation shopping center on South University drive destroyed several businesses and 22 people wounded.