American space agency NASA has confirmed that early on Wednesday afternoon, over Luzon Island in the Philippines, a minor asteroid, about the size of a meter, broke apart in Earth's atmosphere.

Hours after an Arizona observatory spotted a tiny unknown asteroid zooming toward Earth, it harmlessly crashed into our planet’s atmosphere, breaking up over the Philippines. While this 3-foot ...

(Allan G. Madelar via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — A small asteroid discovered on Wednesday harmlessly burned up in Earth’s atmosphere the same day, NASA said. The asteroid — about 3 feet (1 meter ...

The colossal asteroid known as "God of Chaos" might be on a collision course with Earth with an arrival date of Friday the 13th, according to an astronomer. 99942 Apophis was discovered in 2004 ...

This was the time when an asteroid smashed with Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. According to a new study from Japan’s Kobe University, this impact was so powerful that it shifted the moon’s axis.

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Incredible video was captured over the Philippines on Wednesday as a three foot asteroid was seen burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. The Catalina Sky Survey discovered the object early Wednesday ...

A massive asteroid with a surface area approximately twice the size of the Chicago metropolitan area impacted Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system, around four billion years ago ...

A Kobe University researcher has confirmed that an asteroid which struck Jupiter’s moon Ganymede was about 20 times larger than the one that ended the age of the dinosaurs on Earth. According to ...

Ganymede, the biggest moon in the solar system, was hit by an asteroid 20 times larger than the one that ended the age of the dinosaurs on Earth, according to new research. The impact, reckoned to ...

What's the difference between an asteroid and a comet? A comet is basically a dirty iceball composed of rock and ice. The classic image is of a bright "star" in the night sky with a long curved ...