An asteroid lit up the sky over the remote region of Yakutia in eastern Russia on Wednesday night. Scientists discovered the celestial body around twelve hours before it entered the atmosphere.

The meteor that exploded over Russia Friday was slightly larger than previously thought and more powerful, too, NASA scientists say. The explosion over the city of Chelyabinsk, on Friday injured ...

He estimates the object that exploded over Russia was roughly 30 feet across upon entry, and weighed eight to 10 tons. Meteorite strikes this big are rare, but still happen about once every five ...

A meteorite flew across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains, showering fragments of rock over the area and causing explosions. More than 400 people were injured as the debris fell to the ground ...

Footage widely shared on social media shows a massive fireball erupting over a Russian airbase, reportedly hosting tactical and strategic bombers, including Su-24 Combat Jets. A fire broke out at ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, December 10. /TASS/. Stargazers in Russia will have the chance to observe one of the year’s largest meteor showers, the Geminids, which is expected to reach its peak on Friday ...

In 2013, a fireball exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia. No one saw it coming. Even though NASA has been able to identify over 14,000 near-earth objects, its asteroid tracking technology is not ...

The blast was the second largest of its kind in 30 years, and the biggest since the fireball over Chelyabinsk in Russia six years ago. But it went largely unnoticed until now because it blew up ...

Chicken Little would have lost his cookies, yet the Russian driver in this video appears to have kept his wits about him despite the unannounced arrival of a massive fireball falling from the ...

The Chelyabinsk meteor (labelled ChM) appears to have been on an elliptical orbit around the Sun before it collided with Earth (BBC) Astronomers from Colombia have traced the origin of a meteor ...

Over the past ten years ... After the explosion, numerous meteorite fragments fell on the territory of Russia’s Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals. The shockwave from the blast damaged around ...