A meteor — a particularly large and bright type known as a bolide meteor — detonated high above in the atmosphere Monday ...

A large, bright meteor called a bolide meteor exploded high in the atmosphere near Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday night.

They blasted a meteorite with a plasma beam — and made a baffling discovery. The post Scientists Say Heck, Just Nuke a Killer Asteroid Heading for Earth appeared first on Futurism.

A meteor triggered a flurry of fireball sightings on Feb. 10 ...

On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of ...

The odds of a 'city-killer' asteroid smashing into the Earth on December 22, 2032 appear to have ticked up slightly. NASA previously estimated that Asteroid 2024 YR4, a nearly 200-foot-wide space rock ...