On Friday, a meteor exploded 32,000 feet above the Chelyabinsk region of Russia, lighting up the sky and producing a shockwave that shook buildings and shattered windows. At least 1,000 people ...

A small asteroid sped toward Earth before burning out above far northeastern Russia on Tuesday night, sparking a natural light show for residents in that remote corner of the planet, officials said.

We know from the past what effects a meteorite impact can have. Sometimes they were enough to form full-fledged lakes.’ The Oreshnik missile is a medium-range missile that Russia deployed for ...

And just like that asteroid that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013, no one saw this one coming. What’s different is that this one fortunately zoomed right by our planet ...

Russian scientists discovered over 400 potentially dangerous asteroids and performed over 1,000 measurements of small celestial bodies in 2024, the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics under the ...

Ukrainian space officials said later the flash had probably come from a meteor entering the atmosphere. The air force was confident it was not a Russian air attack - an event all too familiar ...

Such meteor strikes are rare, but one did cause widespread damage and injure at least 1,600 people when it crashed down in Russia's Ural Mountains in 2013.

But they are still dangerous. A small asteroid exploded over Russia a decade ago. Scientists have new methods to track these asteroids. This helps protect Earth from impacts. Image source ...