"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

Officials in Yakutia were placed on alert as the asteroid approached, but they confirmed no damage was reported following its descent. The European Space Agency (ESA) said the asteroid - believed ...

The predicted impact site proved fortuitous, falling right in the middle of Western's network of meteor-observing cameras in the same region. The few hours of advance warning about the asteroid ...

The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely not an asteroid, but wasn't any sort of space object at all. Rather, it was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster.

KUNMING -- 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. The Lijiang ...

As 319 Leona passes in front of Betelgeuse and blocks its light, a very slight star shadow will fall across Earth’s surface. However, while the occultation of a star by an asteroid is typically ...

(Reuters) - An asteroid lit up the sky in Russia's remote far eastern region of Yakutia early on Wednesday, producing a fireball before likely burning up in the atmosphere, officials and scientists ...