Meteors: When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

Meteor showers are caused by Earth passing through streams of dust, rocks, metal, and ice, resulting in brilliant displays of ...

Bill Cooke, the lead at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said data indicated that a meteor was moving west at roughly ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 poses a potential risk to the Moon, with a 1.7% chance of collision despite Earth now being safe. If it ...

A radar site on February 21 detected several objects flying through the Earth’s atmosphere at a very high rate of speed and ...

It is estimated that ~25 million meteoroids, micrometeoroids, and other space debris enter Earth’s atmosphere each day, and this 0material is mostly vaporised i ...

About once a year, an asteroid the size of a car hits Earth’s atmosphere, creates a fireball and burns up before reaching the surface. Every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size of a football field ...

Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters) wide, a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is just one of more than ... hitting Earth within the next one hundred years,” Fieber-Beyer said. Meteoroids that are small — 70 cm to one meter — can burn up in the ...