Let's say you're a Hollywood screenwriter and you need some kind of impending, apocalyptic disaster to provide the drama in your next movie. Why not an incoming space rock? After all,...
[ music ] On February 15, asteroid 2012 DA14 will pass within 22,000 miles of Earth: less than a tenth of the distance to the Moon. Although this 45-meter rock has a zero percent chance of hitting us,...
On the morning of February 15, 2013, people in western Russia were dazzled by an incredibly bright meteor blazing a fiery contrail across the sky. A few minutes later a shockwave struck, shaking the...
A "potentially hazardous" asteroid is hurdling toward Earth late Monday. But don't go heading for your emergency spaceships just yet. Scientists say there's no chance...
is the best of the smallest caress real planet presented by science at nasa masses don't speak scrapped spent the last four years of waging to the asteroid vesta and may have found a planet...
record-setting asteroid flood i presented by science at nasa talk about a close either on february fifteenth an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly pastor only seventeen thousand...
back on the shows one of our most popular guests astrophysicist neil bluegrass tyson author of space chronicles facing the ultimate frontier last time doctor tyson joined us via skype video that was...
Ever since that space rock exploded over Russia last year, it seems like we've been hearing a lot about asteroids lighting up the sky. To no one's surprise, another one ripped through...
For the first time ever, an asteroid has been photographed breaking apart in space. NASA's Hubble telescope was able to capture these images between October and January. You can see the...
Scientists have captured incredible images of an asteroid breaking apart for the first time. The Hubble Space Telescope snapped the photos of the rocky asteroid, named P/2013 R3 crumbling into about...