A study found that these cosmic bodies appear to hold up remarkably well to sudden energy deposition and shock conditions, so we may be able to knock them off course and avoid disaster.

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 ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

This video still image shows injuries created by the meteor that exploded over the Chelyabinsk region of Russia on Feb. 15, 2013. An object entered the atmosphere over the Urals early in the morning ...

Clement J Williamson, a famous photographer based at the Studio in Scalloway, always had a deep interest in the night sky. In ...

The light wasn't the first thing people noticed. It was the noise. Earlier this year, people in parts of Indiana and ...

Confirmed locations of meteorite finds. Numbers indicate meteor altitude in km. Image released Nov. 6, 2013. [Read the Full Story Here] Meteorite fragments recovered from the ice-covered Lake ...