An asteroid just came careening into our atmosphere ... despite the outside being hot as it goes through the atmosphere there's no time for the whole thing to heat up, only the very outer layer ...

But there is no need to panic, as the US space agency’s asteroid tracker says that “potentially hazardous” rock will only pass within 2.4m miles of Earth on 11 December. Although the 330m ...

Local officials were placed on alert, the Sakha emergencies ministry noted, but no damage was reported during the event. Related: Tiny asteroid detected hours before hitting Earth to become 4th ...

so we were surprised to find no climatic response," Bridget Wade, the study's co-author, told Newsweek. She added in a statement: "These large asteroid impacts occurred and, over the long term ...

According to several preliminary reports, the asteroid posed no danger to the planet and its inhabitants, although it did not go unnoticed by the dazzling light event in the skies over Eastern ...

The asteroid was first observed with the University of Arizona's Bok telescope by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey and Spacewatch, NASA confirmed. The impact prediction was made by the Scout ...