But planetary defense is real: while an increasingly advanced array of asteroid-hunting observatories diligently and ...

Videos of a meteor shower seen across southwestern Ontario have been popping up across social media since Monday night.

A meteor lit up our region's sky last night – with a large ... the popular tourist town of Varadero when the situation turned ...

Get ready for the unexpected when Norm and his wife Corky invite another couple to their Ojai backyard to watch a meteor shower in the night sky. As the stars come out and the conversation gets ...

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for its role in dinosaur extinction, but new findings suggest it might have been part of a duo. A second asteroid impact might have occurred around the ...

Meteors — “shooting stars” — are small pieces of rock or dust that burn up as they strike Earth’s atmosphere. The Orionid meteor shower is caused by dust and debris left in the inner ...

Laboratory experiments show they work by vaporizing the surface of an asteroid – turning it into a gas – and therefore changing its trajectory. Experts say this technology could potentially be ...

Our descendants will — at some time in the future — almost certainly need to deflect an asteroid ... that inevitably strike planets from time to time. When one veers toward Earth, it's ...

October has been a stellar month for celestial events, with comets, a mini-moon, the Draconid meteor shower and the recent supermoon. And now comes the Orionid meteor shower. The Orionid meteor ...

As long as the moon and skies are all treats and no tricks, skygazers should have a chance to see the Orionids, one of the year's most striking meteor showers, just in time for Halloween.

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Thousands if not tens of thousands of people across the Northwest observed a very bright fireball streak across the sky late Monday night, some capturing it on home doorbell ...