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 ...

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 ...

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.

A fictional scenario at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference imagined an asteroid fragment striking New York City in 2027 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...