"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

A massive 150-foot airplane-sized asteroid is set to pass Earth tomorrow, prompting NASA to issue a cautionary alert., ...

The last major asteroid event in recent history was the 18m-wide meteorite that hit Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013. The fireball turned night into day and released an estimated 500 kilotons of energy ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

The last major asteroid event in recent history was the 18m wide meteorite that hit Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013. The fireball turned night into day and released an estimated 500 kilotons of ...

The last major asteroid event in recent history was the 18m wide meteorite that hit Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013 . The fireball turned night into day and released an estimated 500 kilotons of energy ...

The asteroid, big enough to wipe out an entire city, now has a higher chance of smashing into our home planet in 2032, according to NASA.

The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.

“Serpent Mound is the largest serpent effigy built anywhere on the planet Earth,” O’Grady said. “Serpent Mound is built up on ...

Another notable event involved the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor, which was 66 feet in diameter. Chelyabinsk caused minimal damage to the area where it crash-landed, but its entry created an air burst.

It would be bad, but it would not be catastrophic. Chodas says the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013 was about 20 metres wide and produced an explosion of about 400 ...