The first meteor shower of the New Year also has the potential to be one of the year's best – if the weather cooperates. ...

The astonishing video captures an asteroid streaking across the sky in a brilliant flash before burning up entirely in the ...

Santa Claus isn’t the only thing making a fly-by of Earth this week. NASA has warned that a giant asteroid the size of a 10-story building will be whizzing right past us tonight. Dubbed 2024 XN1 ...

A meteor is the bright trail made by a meteoroid or asteroid burning up in the atmosphere, while meteorite refers to the rock from meteoroids falling to Earth. NASA's Parker Solar Probe completes ...

The MailOnline reports the asteroid will go past Earth at a speed of a whopping 14,743 mph. However, you don't need to be ...

Material from asteroid Ryugu riddled with earthly microbes provides a cautionary tale for scientists seeking signs of alien ...

Asteroids usually tell us about the vast, unpredictable stretches of space, but they seldom give us a chance to witness their theatrical entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. One such asteroid, C0WEPC5, ...

A small asteroid lit up the sky over Russia’s Siberian republic of Yakutia as it entered Earth's atmosphere.View on euronews ...

KUNMING, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- An observatory in southwest China's Yunnan Province has captured rare images of a falling near-Earth asteroid, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on Friday.

When a chunk of asteroid enters our atmosphere, it's usually called a 'meteoroid'. A meteor is the bright trail made by a meteoroid or asteroid burning up in the atmosphere, while meteorite refers to ...