Did you see it? A bright blue fireball streaked across Washington early Friday before breaking apart in the atmosphere.

Scientists have outlined a new strategy that could one day help protect Earth from one of the most devastating threats ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers propose a two-stage method using buried nuclear explosions to effectively destroy or deflect large ...

Reports of an explosion from people across New England Saturday afternoon sent police agencies and others scrambling to understand what caused a double boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and ...

A rare daytime fireball broke the quiet afternoon over New England when a 5-foot-wide meteor violently recently exploded in the sky. The high-altitude blast generated a powerful sonic boom that shook ...

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 ...

A buried explosion, the researchers found, offered "lower technical complexity and better defence effectiveness" than ...

Scientists discover most effective way to destroy doomsday asteroid - Researchers say findings provide an important ...

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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 ...