We may have found a way to stave off armageddon. Spanish Scientists might have made it infinitely easier to spot space rocks heading for Earth — by calculating the gravitational bending of light to ...

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A planetary defense group backed by NASA has started efforts to nail down the exact location of comet 3I/ATLAS following the observation of unnatural behavior from the object. The comet, which is the ...

INTERNATIONAL (KXAN) — On June 30, 1908, an asteroid approximately 70 meters in diameter crashed in the wilds of the Tunguska region of Russia. The collision produced a 12-megaton explosion, ...

A spectacular meteor shower has an origin story in a "violent, catastrophic event," a new study suggests. The Geminids, one of the best of the year, likely arose after 3200 Phaethon underwent "a ...

In one violent moment, the Cretaceous world ended. Using geological evidence, fossilized ash layers, and crater data from ...

Hundreds watched in awe Sunday night as a fireball streaked across the mid-Atlantic. The fireball, which was an exceptionally bright meteor, first became visible 47 miles above the Maryland town of ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The Geminid meteor shower, which ...

The S2 mega meteorite unleashed an ancient apocalypse on Earth unlike anything we could imagine, but did it also help life ...