A small asteroid, approximately 70 cm in diameter, is on a collision course with Earth and is expected to enter the atmosphere over northern Siberia tonight. The event is anticipated around 9:45 ...

A newly-discovered asteroid is set to enter Earth's atmosphere in just hours, Nasa has said. The space rock, named COWECP5, was spotted by the space agency's detection systems and will arrive over ...

Why hadn't we noticed it sooner? - NASA and all of humanity failed to locate this asteroid. They are small in size and the ...

A small asteroid hit Earth’s atmosphere and exploded into a fireball above Russia’s Far East early on Wednesday. The asteroid entered the atmosphere at 1.15am local time on Wednesday (4.15pm GMT on ...

A small asteroid neared the Earth's atmosphere before exploding. Derrick Pitts, the Franklin Institute's chief astronomer and planetarium director, joins CBS News with more on the phenomenon.

“Scout” determined the asteroid would enter Earth’s atmosphere around Jan Mayen, a Norwegian island roughly 480km (300 miles) northeast of Iceland. At 5:23pm ET, two hours after the asteroid ...

Last night’s asteroid – named C0WEPC5 – was spotted in space by astronomers on a “collision course” with Earth just 12 hours before it hit the atmosphere. “At 11.14am EST [16:14 UK time], a very small ...

Astronomers quickly noted that the 27-inch asteroid was on a collision course with Earth; within just 12 hours, it would enter the planet's atmosphere and plunge toward the ground. The European ...

As it crashed into Earth's atmosphere, it would have formed a fireball. “Imagine the asteroid was hitting Glasgow and you’re in Edinburgh, around 50 km away. The fireball would be about 24 ...

Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera snapped this view of Earth and the moon. The clearest of the three images ESA released on Oct. 14 comes from Hera’s Asteroid Framing Camera, which is used for ...

Termed the Cretaceous-Paleogene (also called the K-T and K-P) boundary, the post-impact Earth changed. As the asteroid or comet struck Earth, it vaporized some of the planet’s bedrock ...