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Asteroid C0WEPC5 (temporary designation) entered the atmosphere at 1.15 a.m. local time. A speedy descent of a small asteroid lit up the sky in Russia's remote far eastern region of Yakutia early ...

An asteroid struck Earth on Tuesday, Dec. 3, less than 12 hours after astronomers first discovered it. The space rock, reckoned to be about 1.6-4 feet (0.5-1.2 meters), according to EarthSky ...

This massive space rock has a potential destructive force of 12 million tonnes of TNT. Huge space rock 2024 XN1, which is also dubbed as the 'Christmas Eve asteroid' and is the size of an ...

The asteroid was first observed with the University of Arizona's Bok telescope by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey and Spacewatch, NASA confirmed. The impact prediction was made by the Scout ...

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A tiny asteroid struck Earth this morning, lighting up the dark sky over northern Siberia as it burned up. Measuring around 27 inches wide, the asteroid—temporarily designated C0WEPC5—was ...

The asteroid, called 2020 XR, made its closest approach today at approximately 12:26 a.m. EST (0526 GMT), passing just under six times the distance between Earth and the moon. The flyby came on ...

An asteroid was pegged to hit Earth “imminently,” according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Fortunately, this one wasn’t big enough to land a team of deep-core dril ...

A small asteroid barreled toward Earth, creating a harmless fireball across the skies above eastern Russia on Tuesday, officials said. The asteroid, described as "very small" by NASA, impacted ...

Small asteroid C0WEPC5 detected before impact creates fireball Fourth "imminent impactor" asteroid event recorded in 2024 Monitoring systems enhance asteroid detection and prediction efforts ...

An asteroid on a collision course with Earth discovered early on Tuesday (Dec 3) became the fourth imminent impactor of 2024. It hit our planet over Siberia hours later. The small space rock measured ...