What was the recent scare? It was from a football field–size asteroid designated 2024 YR4. Detected in December by a telescope in Chile, the space rock was flagged for its size—it’s 130 to ...

Detected in December by a telescope in Chile, the space rock was flagged for its size—it’s 130 to 300 feet long, big enough to wipe out a city—and a trajectory that put it on track to ...

Confirmation that the second one was also a space rock came this year. Then in October, he went looking for another meteorite and found one near the provincial boundary with Ontario.

The sight of a fireball streaking across the sky brings wonder and excitement to children and adults alike. It’s a reminder that Earth is part of a much larger and incredibly dynamic system ...

Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Such space rocks are the closest we will ever come to sampling the deepest portions of our own planet. They help us understand its composition. A slab of a pallasite found in Sericho, Kenya in 2016.

READ MORE: Space rocks from 1960 Bruderheim Meteorite help usher in new age of geology Other meteorite events in Alberta had resulted in dozens to hundreds of space rock specimens being found.

The movie poster promised doom from outer space, warning that a meteor five miles wide was "coming at 30,000 m.p.h. … and there's no place on Earth to hide." ...

The space part is what gives Dr. Techtmann, who didn’t collaborate on that line of research, pause. What his team has learned down here won’t necessarily work up there.