Asteroid Day reminds us of space rocks' power. Some asteroids hit Earth hard. One exploded over Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

The brilliant flash, which was accompanied by a sonic boom that many mistook for an earthquake, resulted in hundreds of calls and posts to the American Meteor Society (AMS), NASA’s recommended ...

Starlink satellites are at risk if a “city killer” asteroid crashes into the Moon, experts have warned. The European Space ...

On that same day, a fireball exploded over Siberia in a place called Chelyabinsk, which caused quite a lot of damage but no one saw coming. So, as much as we know, there’s only so much we can know.

Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

Why the daytime fireball meteor that blasted over Atlanta was a rare sight Georgia Tech planetary scientist Masatoshi Hirabayashi said more data is needed to predict small asteroid impacts to Earth, ...

The most explosive recent bolide event occurred over Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013, when an object estimated to have measured about 65 ft., detonated in the atmosphere, injuring nearly ...

More recently, the Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013 — injuring over 1,600 people and releasing energy equivalent to about 440,000 tons of TNT — served as a stark reminder ...