About 118 years ago, an asteroid struck Earth’s atmosphere and exploded over Tunguska, a sparsely populated location in central Siberia. On June 30, 1908, local residents watched a fireball whose ...

Scientists have tested whether a nuclear weapon could one day help protect Earth from a large asteroid heading towards our planet. An asteroid about the size of a football field could be big enough to ...

MEDINA COUNTY, Ohio — A meteor streaked across Northeast Ohio on Tuesday morning and exploded in the sky, rattling homes, turning heads, and sending people outside wondering if a piece landed nearby.

The fireball was visible across portions of New England and quickly became a topic of discussion online, particularly among people in and around Boston. Many residents initially struggled to identify ...

June 30, 2015, marked the first Asteroid Day, which organizers described as a “global awareness movement where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do to ...

Asteroid flies near the earth orbit. Meteorite approaching Earth. Elements of this image furnished by NASA. If an asteroid was ever threatening Earth, the best way to stop it might be with a nuclear ...

A rare daytime fireball broke the quiet afternoon over New England when a 5-foot-wide meteor violently recently exploded in the sky. The high-altitude blast generated a powerful sonic boom that shook ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A meteor that caused loud booms when it exploded over Massachusetts Saturday afternoon split into fragments four times larger than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock For all of human history, if a large enough asteroid were ever found on a collision course with Earth, it ...

Between 2000 and 2013, 26 asteroids packing at least the energy of 1 kilotonne of TNT hit Earth or exploded in its atmosphere. That’s up to 10 times as many as you would expect from existing models of ...

NBC Boston meteorologist Pamela Gardner says it was likely a meteorite entering and exploding in our atmosphere. “There’s a satellite lighting detection around Boston -but no lightning! No earthquakes ...