Rocks from outer space are constantly hurtling toward Earth, slamming into the atmosphere and often exploding into fireballs that both delight and alarm people. Thankfully, the vast majority cause no ...

A nearly 540-foot-wide asteroid crashed into the North Sea, only 80 miles off the coast of East Yorkshire … 43 million years ago. The immense space rock (or possibly a cosmic-sized snowball called a ...

大英博物馆通过公众募捐筹集了上百万英镑以支付购买这件珠宝。大英博物馆馆长尼古拉斯·库里南表示，公众的响应显示出人们对英国历史的高度珍视。 The pendant will join the museum's collection later this year and is expected to tour the UK.

Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck stopped a Texas-sized asteroid from crashing into the Earth in the 1998 science-fiction movie “Armageddon.” But a NASA expert said recently the greatest concern isn’t the ...

Our planet is currently defenseless against “city killer” asteroids, noting “we don’t know where they are,” a leading scientist has warned this week. Astronomer Kelly Fast, NASA’s planetary defense ...

More space technology must be developed to prevent "city-killing asteroids" from hitting Earth, experts recommended at a recent science conference. While the risk is low, mid-size asteroids near Earth ...

A hidden population of asteroids capable of destroying an entire city remains one of the biggest unresolved threats to Earth, according to NASA, planetary defense experts who say thousands of these ...

She’s worried about the a-rock-alypse. A planetary defense expert is warning that humanity is defenseless against up to 15,000 undetected near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to take out a ...

You might be familiar with the phrase 'what you don't know can't hurt you,' but when it comes to asteroids hurtling towards Earth, the old adage doesn't exactly ring true. A scientist has admitted ...

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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man. Forget world records because astronomers recently announced ...