Ebert discussed asteroids, meteors ... happen if an asteroid struck a little closer to home? "If a full-fledged asteroid hit Buffalo, the destruction would extend 1,000 miles and nothing would be left ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Comet P/2016 BA14 (Pan-STARRS) isn’t your average space snowball and it knows how to make an entrance. At first 2016 BA14 was mistaken for a dead, dry asteroid until subsequent observations ...