The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus. Reading time 2 minutes A large rocky asteroid will make a close approach to ...

A bright fireball streaking across the Texas sky may have ended with a rare and dramatic impact right through the roof of a home. NASA confirmed a meteoroid about 3 feet wide and weighing roughly a ...

Early in the morning of October 6, 2008, astronomers at the University of Arizona detected an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. When other sightings cropped up across the world, the ...

A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Geology proposes that the same asteroid strike that carved Arizona’s Meteor Crater roughly 50,000 years ago also triggered a massive landslide inside the ...