YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

The small asteroid that broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013, was a reminder about the importance of monitoring small bodies in space that could pose a threat to Earth.

When Chelyabinsk arrived on February 13, 2013, it quickly became a brilliant superbolide meteor over the southern Ural region of Russia; it’s the second largest asteroid airburst in our recorded ...

On Feb. 15, 2003, a meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, showing why we need better methods of detecting and tracking near-Earth asteroids.

They say that Russia is the motherland of conspiracy theories, and public reaction to the sudden meteor strike a week ago that stunned people in the Ural mountains, and injured more than 1,200 ...

Chelyabinsk was considered a small asteroid - that and its arrival during daylight is why it was hard to see coming. "We're still vulnerable to those that are coming from the sun," admits Mr Johnson.

The Chelyabinsk meteor was also a reminder to humanity, that the sky above us is filled with small rocks that could have big impacts. And it was a wake-up call to the Earth that it could be hit by ...

Upon encountering our planet's dense atmospheric layer, the asteroid exploded, briefly outshining the sun. The explosion took place above the Chelyabinsk Oblast and was so powerful that the ...

A decade on from the Chelyabinsk meteor, and our planet has come a long way in detecting the threat of interstellar objects potentially hurtling into the atmosphere. But has the risk been ...