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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A 150-foot asteroid hurtled through Earth’s backyard Friday, coming within an incredible 17,150 miles and making the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. In a chilling ...

Around the world on Feb. 15, people turned their gaze upon amateur video of a meteor that streaked across a Russian sky and exploded with ear-splitting force. News agencies reported sonic blasts that ...

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 ...

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

On June 2, 2016, NASA confirmed the bright burst of light over Arizona skies to be an asteroid exploding — a mere 90 kilometers above the earth. This came just a few days after another asteroid event ...

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 ...

When stars explode or galaxies split apart, their crashing releases intense eddies of cosmic material that hurtle around in space, often accumulating into gigantic rocks that scientists call ...

A violent stellar explosion has just given astronomers their clearest look yet at how some of the raw ingredients for biology ...