In 2013, an asteroid roughly 66 feet wide exploded high above Chelyabinsk, Russia, producing a shockwave that damaged thousands of buildings and injured about 1,500 people. Scientists had successfully ...

A 66-foot asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 with a flash brighter than the Sun, but the shockwave arrived about 90 seconds later, smashing windows and injuring roughly 1,500 people.

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 ...

MOSCOW-With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky Friday and exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs, injuring more than 1,000 people as it ...

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 ...

The building of the city;s city sports arena is damaged in after a meteorite fell near Chelyabinsk, about 1500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013. With a blinding ...

HAVANA — Cuba apparently experienced a phenomenon similar to but smaller than the meteor that detonated over Russia this week, island media reported, with startled residents describing a bright light ...