The asteroid, called 2024 UQ, was first spotted on 22 October by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, a telescope network scanning the sky for space rocks likely headed for the ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Asteroid 2024 UQ entered Earth’s atmosphere hours after detection. 2024 UQ was too small for major impact, disintegrated off ...

But, along with the contemporaneous Deep Impact, these movies brought the very real threat of asteroid strikes to global attention. Among other factors, these movies also arguably helped convince ...

It was 50 to 200 times the size of the dinosaur-killing asteroid. It boiled the oceans ... life found a way to thrive. "We think of impact events as being disastrous for life," Nadja Drabon ...

Spherules from an Archean impact layer, with a coin used for scale. Formed from molten debris that rained out from asteroid strikes, thick beds of these tiny orbs in Archean rocks are direct ...

Led by Uisdean Nicholson, a geologist at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, scientists used 3D seismic data to measure the impact and were able to reverse engineer the size of the asteroid ...

Last month, the Earth's atmosphere was bombarded by a small, boulder-sized asteroid just hours after it had first been detected, having evaded early impact monitoring systems. The object ...

Of the five asteroids set to breeze through on Thursday, only one of them fits the bill as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), and that one won’t be coming close enough to cause any alarm.

The impact of a previously unknown asteroid from the past has left an impressive mark beneath the ocean. Thanks to modern technologies, researchers were able to make this discovery. This crater, named ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...

The Hera spacecraft is flying to the site of a pulverized asteroid. "Farewell ... Large asteroids rarely impact Earth, but when they do, regional to local devastation can ensue.