A meteor has exploded over the Ural Mountains in Russia. Here's why it's unrelated to asteroid 2012 DA14 and what would happen if that asteroid hit us.

One of the big problems of dealing with space rocks is finding said space rocks.

So, they're making a movie based on the Asteroids arcade game.

When Universal announced back in June that they were trying to get sci-fi explosions director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow) to direct a movie based on classic arcade game Asteroids, it begged the question: could a bad director a ruin a movie that was a bad idea to begin with.

Hey, remember the time you and I did a bunch of whippits together and then tried riding that ostrich at the arcade.

Let's face it, we've all worried about a giant asteroid crashing into the Earth from time to time.

Anthony Wesley, having the chick magnet hobby of astronomy, has apparently managed to hit the galactic lotto twice and has witnessed Jupiter getting pegged by intergalactic space projectiles not once, but twice.

If you're in the Philadelphia area, you're probably familiar with the delicious soft-serve/Slurpee treat known as water ice.