Last week, local media reports indicated that a meteorite hit the Cuban town of Viñales after soaring across the…
Every once in a while, our planet captures a “mini-moon,” a tiny asteroid that hangs out in our orbit for a bit before…
Late last year, astronomers detected the first known interstellar asteroid, dubbed ‘Oumuamua. New research suggests…
Early tomorrow, a small asteroid will zip past Earth well inside the Moon’s orbit. NASA says poses no threat, but…
Oh Florence, we really needed you this month. There’s a petulant species of brainy monkeys apes that just can’t seem to…
A mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique just got a NASA promotion to the design phase. Called DART,…
If an asteroid were closing in on our planet, we’d know about it quickly thanks to a dedicated network of astronomers.…
It’d be such a shame to lose this fragile, watery planet to an asteroid strike. NASA’s newly-formalized Planetary…
Fresh off the heels of Spooky the Halloween Asteroid comes news of yet another celestial object coming to pay us a…
On All Hallow’s Eve, an asteroid dubbed “Spooky” will make its closest approach to our planet. Hurtling along at an…
We can expect a totally different kind of trick-or-treater this coming Halloween. A rather large asteroid—discovered…
On Friday, asteroid 2014-YB35 is expected to make its closest approach to Earth. Traveling at over 23,000 mph (37,000…
Measuring 250 miles (400 km) wide, the now-buried crater in Australia was ground zero for a cataclysmic impact that…
A stellar orange dwarf has a 90% chance of passing through the outer reaches of our solar system no earlier than a…
Around 3.26 billion years ago — long before the dinosaurs — a massive asteroid measuring nearly 36 miles (58 km) across…
Behold the peanut-shaped Asteroid 2006 DP14, a 1,300-foot (400-meter) long object that recently flew past Earth. The…
Last night, a giant asteroid was supposed to streak by the Earth, close enough for us to catch a glimpse as it zipped…
Today, we got some hard numbers on the asteroids, comets and other objects whizzing through space near Earth.
Mark August 26th, 2032 on your calendar, folks. Ukrainian astronomers have just detected a 1,350-foot-wide (410 meter)…
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