asteroid

All meteor showers originate from the debris field of comets or asteroids.

Somewhere in there an asteroid strikes, the planet burns, and the dinosaurs’ era comes to an end.

Steve Schmidt, a former Republican political consultant and Trump opponent, described the comment as a potential “killer asteroid” moment for the Harris campaign.

The team also found evidence that massive asteroid impacts did not bring only destruction to Earth - they helped early life thrive.

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022.