It’s not every day that Earth gets struck by space debri- actually, scratch that. The planet has a cosmic run-in roughly 17 times a day. However, few of those impacts are quite like the ...

A small asteroid detected only hours before entering the Earth’s atmosphere burned up in the skies above Berlin into a harmless fireball on Sunday. The entry of the space rock, dubbed 2024 BXI, into ...

Let’s get the first question out of the way quickly. Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 50- to 90-meter-wide Earth-approaching object, is likely not going to hit our planet in 2032. But, since the odds of it ...

The newest generation of weather satellites are revealing our planet as we've never seen it before. One area of advancement comes in a somewhat unexpected arena, though - asteroid detection. Early in ...

An overnight asteroid explosion over Arizona lit up the sky so brightly that it appeared as if it were daylight for a short time. Videos show the sky temporarily illuminated by a blast of light just ...

While one of these two asteroids has been observed for over 13 years, the other was only discovered a couple of weeks before this close flyby. Just in time for Asteroid Day 2024, two massive asteroids ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. - A 46-metre asteroid hurtled through Earth’s backyard Friday, coming within an incredible 27,600 kilometres and making the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. In a ...

On the 13th (local time), an asteroid (Sar2667) about 1 meter in diameter entered the atmosphere over the English Channel and exploded. It fell like an ordinary "shooting star," creating a tail before ...

Look at it this way — there's almost a 99 per cent chance an asteroid up to the size of a football field won't hit the Earth in eight years. We're not at a direct threat. We're not in immediate risk.

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA.—The world is safe — at least from one asteroid. A 46-metre cosmic rock hurtled safely past Earth on Friday.

It’s a question made somewhat more pressing by the revelation last month that a Statue of Liberty-sized asteroid might smash into our planet in 2032. In all likelihood, the asteroid will miss — it has ...