On a summer morning in 1908, exactly 118 years ago today, something tore across the skies above one of the most remote corners of Siberia and changed the landscape in seconds. There was no crater to ...
Dramatic red skies are seen in Miass, Russia, as storms moved in while local authorities warned of heavy rain and thunderstorms in the Chelyabinsk region. Video credit: @zhukova_mariyaaaa via ...
10:39, Sun, May 17, 2026 Updated: 10:42, Sun, May 17, 2026 A newly discovered asteroid will pass Earth at a distance of roughly 90,000 km (56,000 miles) tomorrow, in what astronomers describe as one ...
On February 15, 2013, the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, witnessed something terrifying. A six-story-tall asteroid weighing nearly 10,000 metric tons tore through the atmosphere at more than 64,000 km ...
Every year, the Taurid meteor shower lights up the night sky from late October through early November. Sometimes called the “Halloween fireballs”, they are named for the constellation Taurus—the ...
June 30, 2015, was the first “Asteroid Day,” when “people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids” and what can be done to protect the planet from asteroid and comet impacts, ...
Former NASA astronaut and current US Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) is spearheading a campaign to designate June 30 as Asteroid Day. The "holiday," which is already acknowledged in other parts of the world ...
When we think about asteroids that could threaten Earth, we often imagine massive, city-sized rocks hurtling through space. But what if the real danger comes from much smaller, barely detectable ones?