The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...

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Sometimes, it's hard to remember that Earth is constantly being bombarded by literally tons of space debris daily. The larger ...

An asteroid around the size of a refrigerator was spotted hours before it hit Earth’s atmosphere, and while it wasn’t dangerous, it marked the fifth time in history an asteroid was detected ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect us. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins AP ...

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

The ring might have acted like a giant sunshade, causing a cooling effect that might have unleashed an ice age.

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Usually, the best time to see a meteor shower is a clear sky, no moon or cloud cover and between midnight and sunrise. The ...

Quadrantid meteor shower — the first of 2025 — is set to peak early on Friday. During that time, the shooing stars won't be ...

One study conducted posits that nearly 17,000 meteors hit Earth every year ... These meteors come from the 2003 EH asteroid as the Earth drifts through its tail. Gamma Normids is a minor ...