A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

The odds are about 1% that the football field-sized object could hit the Earth, but that makes it the closest call in more ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

A freshly spotted asteroid that is up to 300ft wide detected by an automated telescope in December has a small chance of ...

Could a meteorite really hit a person and injure them? And just how common is a meteorite crashing down to Earth? The frequency of meteorites making it to the Earth's surface depends on their size, ...

One of the most popular science fiction tropes in movies and TV, right up there with time travel and extraterrestrial life, is the idea of parallel universes or alternate universes. The concept of ...

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Canada – For the first time in human history both video and sound of a meteorite have been captured as it hit Earth. Video from a doorbell camera at a home on Prince Edward ...

Unlike all of its previous trips, though, on this latest spin around the inner solar system, Earth got in its way ... Why wasn't anything seen or heard before the meteorite hit the ground? This ...

In July 2024, a Ring doorbell camera on the Charlottetown home of Joe Velaidum and Laura Kelly captured not just video of a meteorite ... Earth's atmosphere. What's less common is for chunks to reach ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The 370-foot-wide asteroid will come within 2,640,000 miles, over 16 times the ...

An enormous asteroid potentially larger than the Washington ... that would cause significant regional damage if it hit the Earth," he said. "Not all NEOs are potentially hazardous, but all ...