In a matter of hours, a small asteroid will burn over the Siberian skies. This is only the 11th time that an asteroid has ...

This asteroid, named 2024 XA1, is only the 11th object we have ever managed to detect before it entered our planet's ...

C0WEPC5, as the asteroid has been temporarily named, entered Earth's atmosphere at 1:15 a.m. local time on Dec. 4 over Russia ...

The asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere at 11:15 a.m. ET over Yakutia in northeastern Siberia, creating a massive fireball.

On December 3, a tiny asteroid just 68 centimeters in size known as COWECP5 entered Earth's atmosphere, according to ...

Astronomers at MIT have detected the smallest asteroids ever, measuring just 10 metres across, using data from NASA's James ...

The asteroid, which has the temporary designation C0WEPC5, has now become the 4th "imminent impactor" discovered in 2024, ...

He said 80 per cent of the crater appeared to be made up of ice and that there were no traces of an explosion. The discovery eliminates the possibility that a meteorite had struck the region.

In the autumn of 2016, residents of the Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia witnessed a bright green meteor soaring above Lake Baikal. It was later dubbed the Baikal Bolide. Scientists ...

The most damaging meteorite strike in recent times was the Tunguska event, a megaton-scale explosion that destroyed a swathe of Siberian forest in 1908. Has anyone ever been killed by a meteoroid ...