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

A meteor — a particularly large and bright type known as a bolide meteor — detonated high above in the atmosphere Monday night around the Gulf Coast of Florida. The Tallahassee office of the National ...

A large, bright meteor called a bolide meteor exploded high in the atmosphere near Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday night.

A meteor exploded over Michigan's Great Lakes in a green fireball, videos reveal. The dramatic event was likely caused by a comet fragment burning up in the atmosphere. On Sunday (Nov. 23) at around 5 ...

When stars explode or galaxies split apart, their crashing releases intense eddies of cosmic material that hurtle around in space, often accumulating into gigantic rocks that scientists call ...

The odds of a 'city-killer' asteroid smashing into the Earth on December 22, 2032 appear to have ticked up slightly. NASA previously estimated that Asteroid 2024 YR4, a nearly 200-foot-wide space rock ...