A small asteroid careened toward Earth before burning up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky witnessed across the region. The space rock ...

An asteroid streaked past northern Siberia in the middle of the night Tuesday before burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, lighting up the skies with a blinding flash, dramatic video shows.

The asteroid entered the atmosphere Tuesday morning in northeastern Siberia. A small asteroid was visible in northern Siberia on Tuesday, as it closed in on its collision course with Earth.

The European Space Agency said that the asteroid, which was about 27.5 inches wide, was seen burning up across the sky on Dec. 3 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

The asteroid, measuring just about 70cm in diameter, was spotted “on a collision course” with the Earth just 12 hours before its appearance in the sky, the European Space Agency said.

And, for a little while after the asteroid's 2020 discovery, astronomers feared the space rock had a chance of doing just that. a black canvas speckled heavily with white dots. a red arrow points to a ...

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An asteroid just came careening into our atmosphere, burning up in a dramatic fireball over Russia. The asteroid, formally named 2024 XA1, measured about 28 inches across, and had only been ...