British Columbians took to social media Tuesday evening to share reports of a bright fireball in the night sky over Vancouver ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

Best time to see them in 2026: The meteor shower will peak overnight around October 21 and 22. The best time to view the ...

An asteroid the size of a building could collide with the Moon in 2032 and generate a flash visible from Earth.

2024 YR4, the "city-killer" asteroid that briefly made headlines last year due to a small but non-zero chance that it may hit the Earth, may soon have increased odds of striking our Moon. Asteroid ...

A new time lapse from the International Space Station captures a meteor streaking into the atmosphere and vaporizing above the planet, turning a fleeting flash into a slow, cinematic sequence. From ...

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026. Image from Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project www.virtualtelescope.eu A massive near-Earth asteroid of “planet ...

Asteroid 2025 YU15 will sweep past Earth at remarkable speed this February, drawing global attention and raising questions about how closely scientists are watching the next celestial visitor.

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

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