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The uncanny -- but unrelated -- combination of today's close flyby of Asteroid 2012 DA14 and the meteor that created an airburst event over Russia has many wondering how we could deal with future potential threats to Ear...

In a wave of media releases, the latest studies performed by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are lighting up the world of particle astrophysics with the news of how supernovae could be the progenitor of cosmic ray...

Here's the latest video of the fast approaching asteroid named 2012 DA14 that's screeching towards our planet and set to give us all a very close shave this afternoon, shortly after 2 PM EST.(...)Read the rest of Latest ...

This just in: reports of bright meteors and loud explosions have been coming from Russia, with the incredible video above showing what appears to be a meteor exploding in the atmosphere on the morning of Friday, Feb. 15....

See photos of an apparent meteor that lit up the Russian sky on Feb. 15, 2013, and created a massive blast.

The heart of our Milky Way galaxy is an exotic place. It's swarming with gigantic stars, showered by lethal blasts of high-energy radiation and a veritable cul-de-sac for the most enigmatic stellar corpses known to scien...