Meteorite strikes this big are rare, but still happen about once every five years. In 2008, for instance, a big meteor exploded over Sudan. No one was hurt. The largest meteorite strike in ...

They are also conducting asteroid impact simulations to estimate the damage from different types of collisions and to develop effective methods to respond to a real strike. Nasa plans to launch a ...

However, one of the few for which we can be truly ready is an asteroid strike. While nobody has found any large asteroids on a collision course with Earth yet, scientists, engineers and policy ...

The object bypassed impact monitoring systems. Last month, the Earth's atmosphere was bombarded by a small, boulder-sized asteroid just hours after it had first been detected, having evaded early ...

‘God of Chaos’ asteroid update as ‘astroquakes’ could strike on Friday the 13th Space agencies around the world are developing defence systems to detect and track asteroids that could pose ...

They are also conducting asteroid impact simulations to estimate the damage from different types of collisions and to develop effective methods to respond to a real strike. Nasa plans to launch a new ...