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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The local newspaper Znak reported the meteorite was intercepted by an air defense unit at the Urzhumka settlement near Chelyabinsk. Quoting a source in the military, it wrote a missile salvo blew the ...

Meteorite impacts are much more common than we think, with a handful of them happening every year. However, it's much more rare when one the size of the meteorite that crashed down in Russia this ...

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, ...

Chunks of rock fall from space all the time, some of them big enough to do a fair amount of damage. Most of the time, however, nobody’s the wiser: the vast majority of Earth’s surface is ocean, desert ...

CHELYABINSK, Russia (AP) — A small army of workers set to work Saturday to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, while other residents contemplated the ...

We've seen the first fragments of meteorites from last Friday's Russian fireball. I thought you'd also like a look at more recent, high-quality close-ups of larger pieces. All these images are from ...

CHELYABINSK, Russia (AP) — A small army of workers set to work Saturday to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, while other residents contemplated the ...