The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.
A meteor — a particularly large and bright type known as a bolide meteor — detonated high above in the atmosphere Monday night around the Gulf Coast of Florida. The Tallahassee office of the National ...
A large, bright meteor called a bolide meteor exploded high in the atmosphere near Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday night.
They blasted a meteorite with a plasma beam — and made a baffling discovery. The post Scientists Say Heck, Just Nuke a Killer Asteroid Heading for Earth appeared first on Futurism.
The odds of a 'city-killer' asteroid smashing into the Earth on December 22, 2032 appear to have ticked up slightly. NASA previously estimated that Asteroid 2024 YR4, a nearly 200-foot-wide space rock ...
On February 15, 2013, the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, witnessed something terrifying. A six-story-tall asteroid weighing nearly 10,000 metric tons tore through the atmosphere at more than 64,000 km ...