Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Any asteroid larger than 165 feet (50 m) across is capable of breaching Earth's atmosphere and striking the ground. The sun's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We see an enormous, fiery asteroid falling through Earth's atmosphere and very nearly hitting our blue planet. It's a classic ...

Throughout "Star Trek: The Original Series," Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the rest of the USS Enterprise faced off against a vast assortment of intergalactic villains –- ranging from ...

Having a celebrity drop in to help commemorate an event isn’t unusual. But what if that event was the Tunguska explosion that flattened 849 square miles of Siberia in 1908? And the “celebrity” is a ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The ‘planet killer’ asteroid will pass safely past Earth just after 9pm BST on 27 June, 2024 (iStock/ Getty Images) A mountain-sized asteroid nicknamed the “planet killer” will make its closest ...

Earth and other terrestrial planets probably use their gravitational forces to tear apart asteroids ― but this creates more streams of smaller asteroids. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

In the glare of the sun, an unknown number of near-Earth asteroids move on unseen orbits. A new generation of space telescopes could be our best defense against potential disaster. When you purchase ...