Meteor strikes are usually associated with mass extinctions, but a new study shows that one meteor strike could have actually ...

The Geminid meteor shower peaked overnight on Dec. 13 and 14, lighting up the skies as impressive meteors struck Earth's ...

In 2008, for instance, a big meteor exploded over Sudan. No one was hurt. The largest meteorite strike in recorded history was in 1908, also over Russia. Know as the "Tunguska event," the blast ...

Belfast astronomer at ground control on mission to stop asteroid strike on Earth - Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s ...

30, 1954, when she was struck in the thigh by a meteorite that had crashed through her roof and ricocheted off her radio set. Observers in Talladega County that day reported seeing a fireball in ...

The Chicxulub meteorite impact, rather than volcanic activity, was the principal driver behind the extinction of the ...

Related: Earth vulnerable to major asteroid strike, White House science chief says The larger of the two asteroids, which was still smaller than the Chicxulub impactor that wiped most dinosaurs ...

The asteroid was first observed with the University of Arizona's Bok telescope by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey and Spacewatch, NASA confirmed. The impact prediction was made by the Scout ...

The Brutalist-inspired watch, dubbed the B/1M, was made from part of the Muonionalusta meteorite, the remains of which were first discovered in the Swedish village of Kitkiöjärvi in 1906.