The next asteroid won’t come with a warning siren. What happens after it’s discovered could determine everything.

The show’s returning series regulars include Joel Kinnaman, Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña and Wrenn Schmidt, with Mireille Enos, Costa Ronin, Sean Kaufman, Ruby Cruz, and Ines ...

A factual look at projections of a potential 2032 asteroid impact on the Moon, including how scientists track near-Earth objects and assess impact probabilities.

The light wasn't the first thing people noticed. It was the noise. Earlier this year, people in parts of Indiana and ...

In a stark and widely reported warning, NASA’s planetary defence chief has revealed that Earth currently has no reliable way to stop thousands of “cit.

If the world exploded, what proportion of the rocks floating in space would have evidence of life? (continued) ...

On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on ...

Much depends upon the variables. What kind of explosion? What is meant by “evidence of life”? What or who is attempting to interpret any surviving evidence? Life has colonised all the niches on the ...

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear warhead.

On Feb. 8, 1969, a massive meteorite rained a couple of tons of stones on the Mexican town of Allende, not far from the Texas border. The fireball scattered thousands of stones over a huge area. Over ...

Dozens of people across Wyoming, Colorado and Utah saw a colorful fireball streak through the sky Thursday night. Experts say it likely faded over Flaming Gorge with a chance fragments reached the ...

A meteor — a particularly large and bright type known as a bolide meteor — detonated high above in the atmosphere Monday ...