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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cameras mounted on car dashboards have given us multiple, spine-tingling views of the meteorite that exploded in the Siberian skies on Friday. Jalopnik Friday republished an essay by Marina Galperina ...
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 ...
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Did you watch that footage of the Russian meteor that crashed down on Friday and injured about a thousand people? So did I. So did everybody. In fact, more people watched that video in its first five ...
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 ...
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.