About once a year, an automobile-sized asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere, creates an impressive fireball, and burns up before reaching the surface. Every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size of ...

An asteroid that landed in Russia in 2013 injured 1,500 people – and was just 20 metres in diameter. What could we do if a major threat was detected? Osiris-REx will spend the next year looking ...

An asteroid that landed in Russia in 2013 injured 1,500 people – and was just 20 metres in diameter. What could we do if a major threat was detected? Osiris-REx will spend the next year looking ...

A dazzling meteor lit up Karachi’s sky at 2:43 am, leaving residents in awe. The rare celestial event was captured on camera, ...

A meteoroid is a small rock, measuring anywhere between a grain of sand to a boulder, that breaks off from a comet or asteroid. These become a meteor when they vaporise in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, and it could smash into ... We call the little chunks meteoroids, the big icy chunks comets, and the big rocky chunks, asteroids. Most asteroids rather conveniently live in ...

path of meteor seen just after midnight, Saturday March 22 A meteor is the bright streak of light produced when a meteoroid—a small rock, likely a fragment of an asteroid—burns up upon ...