Some asteroids are more dangerous than others, according to a report published in Nature Astronomy by an international team of researchers, led by astrophysicist Auriane Egal of the Montreal ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information ...

In 2023, a fireball appeared in the French skies, startling people worldwide. This fireball was a result of a tiny meteoroid named 2023 CX1 blowing apart at a very low latitude. Findings regarding ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...

On a quiet night in February 2023, residents in northern France looked up and saw something extraordinary: a blazing fireball slicing across the sky, briefly turning darkness into daylight. What they ...

An asteroid that measures up to 300 feet across could smack into Earth in 2032, and while NASA says the chances of a collision are “extremely low,” the probability has been increasing since the space ...

Large asteroids are considered a potential threat to the Earth. That's why scientists closely monitor them and record every change in their motion or other parameters. Currently, 5 such asteroids ...