June 30 marks Asteroid Day, a holiday observed annually to reflect on the prospect of a planet-destroying space rock striking Earth and what scientists are doing to mitigate that risk.

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International Asteroid Day aims to raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard and to inform the public about the crisis communication actions to be taken at the global level in case ...

International Asteroid Day, observed on June 30, commemorates the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia, where an asteroid explosion flattened 830 square miles of forest.

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If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Asteroid Day 2024 is coming up, commemorating the explosion of the largest observed ...

June 30– International Asteroid Day. June 30 marks the anniversary of the Tunguska Event, a frankly terrifying asteroid strike that remains the largest asteroid impact event in recorded history.

Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid stretching 6 miles (10 kilometers) across struck Earth, ending the reign of the dinosaurs. Today, the probability of an asteroid that size wiping ...

A new study suggests that unidentified "co-orbital asteroids" around Venus may have the capacity to impact our planet in the future, with potentially devastating consequences. However, there is no ...

Because Asteroid Day falls on a weekend this year, "we could see pretty big crowds between the two sites," he said. At Lowell, research scientist Brian Skiff will discuss the odd quasi-moon of Venus.

Asteroid 2024 MK brushed past Earth on Saturday at 9:45 am ET (13:45 UTC). Although it posed no threat to our planet, the fact that it was discovered just two weeks ago underscores the need to ...