MOSCOW – A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 ...
Friday's explosion, estimated to be equivalent to several atomic bombs, shattered glass in more than 4,000 buildings in Chelyabinsk and the surrounding region, leaving residents vulnerable in ...
On Friday a 10-ton meteor screamed through the Russian sky, creating a sonic shockwave that hurt more than 1,000 people — and led to the creation of some jaw-dropping YouTube videos. But this is about ...
CHELYABINSK, Russia — A small army of workers set to work Saturday to replace the estimated 50 acres of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region ...
Divers at a Russian lake have pulled out a 5-foot-wide, half-ton hunk of meteorite from the Chelyabinsk meteor that streaked across skies in February. The large black fragment smashed a 6-meter-wide ...
DEPUTATSKOYE, Russia -- Ever since the meteor exploded somewhere over this impoverished Siberian town, Larisa V. Briyukova wondered what to do with the fist-size stone she found under a hole in the ...
Two years after an asteroid exploded over Russia and injured more than 1,200 people, the origin of the space rock still puzzles scientists. The 66-foot-wide (20 meters) asteroid broke up over the city ...
A meteor explosion in the skies above Russia this morning also walloped the Earth, triggering shaking as strong as an earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports. Today's early morning blast ...
Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...
New estimates reported by NASA indicate that the meteor that entered Earth's atmosphere last week — resulting in an explosion near Chelyabinsk, Russia — was the largest to do so in more than a century ...
Friday morning aren’t related to the asteroid that passed uncomfortably close to earth later in the day, but the strange coincidence serves as a solemn reminder of the dangers meteorites can present. ...
So, after yesterday's Russian meteor, and the asteroid passing that could have leveled an entire city, we thought the brief "space stuff falling from the sky" trend was over. But that's not the case.