The U.S. Space Command announced this week that it determined a 2014 meteor hit that hit Earth was from outside the solar system. The meteor streaked across the sky off the coast of Manus Island, ...

A meteor is a broken fragment of rock from space, such as debris from an asteroid collision, that enters Earth's atmosphere. They are typically visible at night as they make fast-moving streaks ...

A large asteroid might hit Earth in a few years from now! Can we do anything to get it off course or will we be hit by the biggest asteroid in the history of Earth's existence? Check out today's video ...

In April 2029, a potentially dangerous asteroid the size of a skyscraper will fly by Earth, sailing closer to us than even some of our own satellites. It’s going to be one heck of a spectacle for ...

Artist’s concept of an asteroid near Earth. Experts found a small asteroid hour before it impacted Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean near Australia on Sunday, September 6, 2026. The object ...

There’s probably a large space rock out there, somewhere, that has Earth in its crosshairs. Scientists have, in fact, spotted one candidate: Bennu, which has a small chance of banging into our planet ...

A tiny space object, designation 2026 RW1, entered Earth's atmosphere off the coast of northwestern Australia on September 6, 2026. It burned up over the Indian Ocean. According to EarthSky, it was ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the catastrophic impact and global devastation that would occur if a massive asteroid collided with major metropolitan areas.

Discovered in 2004 while traveling on an alarming potential collision course with our planet, the near-Earth asteroid Apophis is now better known as the best example yet of our world dodging a cosmic ...