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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Scientists have found more than 50 tiny fragments of a meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of dozens of atomic bombs. Viktor Grokhovsky, who led the ...

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, ...

Russian authorities claim to have found the impact sites of some of the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Two have been found near Chebarkul Lake—one of ...

It’s been an odd day for Earth and celestial objects. A 10-ton meteorite exploded near the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring hundreds and causing widespread panic. Meanwhile, a 143,000-ton ...

Well that’s something you don’t see every day. A meteor crashed down in eastern Russia, and we are lucky enough that someone was able to catch it on video. Health officials say nearly 1,000 people ...

Russian-language hashtags for the meteorite quickly shot up into Twitter's top trends. Lessons had just started at Chelyabinsk schools when the meteor exploded, and officials said 258 schoolchildren ...

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 ...

On November 20, 2025, in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russia, security video captured a meteor streaking across the evening ...

A woman in Okulovka, Russia, discovered a meteorite lodged in her roof after a bright green fireball was seen across several regions on October 27. Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences ...

We're pretty sure this is what Michael Bay dreams of when he goes to sleep: Obviously, the meteor was bigger than your average shooting star and going pretty fast. "The [Russian Academy of Sciences] ...

The largest recorded meteor strike in more than a century occurred hours before a 150-foot asteroid passed within about 17,000 miles of Earth. The European Space Agency said its experts had determined ...