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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHELYABINSK, Russia -- As a small army of people worked to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, many joked on Saturday about what had happened in this troubled ...

On Feb. 15, 2013, Paul Chodas, manager of the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, was preparing for a NASA TV segment on the flyby of ...

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 ...

Meteor explodes in the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia (Image from dashboard camera, credit unknown) CHELYABINSK, Russia, February 15, 2013 (ENS) – An asteroid several meters in diameter exploded in the ...

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.

A newly found asteroid will pass by Earth at about the distance of the moon's orbit, with its closest approach coming at 2:35 a.m. ET (7:35 a.m. UTC) Monday. Named 2013 EC, the asteroid is roughly the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A meteor explosion in the skies above Russia this morning also walloped the Earth, triggering ...