The ATLAS survey, a four-telescope system tasked with tracking near-Earth objects, first observed the asteroid in images captured on October 22. European Space Agency (ESA) officials noted that while ...

What is the Taurid meteor shower? The Taurids are a long-lasting meteor shower which occur every autumn. A meteor shower is caused when the Earth travels through a cloud of debris from a comet. The ...

The Southern Taurid meteor shower reaches its peak Nov. 12. Here's how to maximize your chances of seeing a colorful fireball from this shower. For the next week or so, if you happen to be outside ...

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 ...

Nasa launched Osiris-Apex to study Apophis, the so-called 'God of Chaos' asteroid Nikki Haley responds to Trump’s announcement that she’s not welcome back in his second administration 5 foods ...

As part of its strike announcement on Monday, the New York Times Tech Guild requested that people don’t cross the digital picket line to play the NYT’s daily puzzle games. This collection of ...

“What we posted today and will post throughout our strike are fun ways people can support us,” says Sheehan, the NewsGuild spokesperson. “Generally speaking, we hope that The Times is more ...

A paper published in the Planetary Science Journal claims that Apophis could collide with a small asteroid like the ones that frequently and unpredictably strike Earth, which could alter its ...

The New York Times’ Needle lives: The newspaper’s popular election-prediction gauge made its return on Tuesday night — despite the ongoing strike called Monday by the union representing tech ...

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 ...

MAINE (WGME) -- The Taurid meteor shower returns this year in November. There are two meteor showers: the Northern Taurids and the Southern Taurids. The Southern Taurids peak comes first on ...