An asteroid measuring approximately 70 cm in diameter crashed over Yakutia, Russia, on December 3, 2024, just hours after its discovery. The object, detected around 12 hours prior to impact ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

The Chelyabinsk meteor exploded over Russia with a force of 40 Hiroshima nuclear bombs. Damage stretched for 500 square kilometers, destroying 7,200 building and injuring over 1,400 people in its ...

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, January 12. /TASS/. A space object believed to be a meteor has been spotted in the sky over Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, videos of the object shooting across the night ...

MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. The Southern Delta Aquariids meteor shower peaking in late July may not be seen in Russia because of the waxing moon, the press service of Moscow’s Planetarium told TASS ...

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 ...

an asteroid which scorched through Earth's atmosphere in 2013 and smashed through the icy plains of southern Russia. Luca said: “It didn’t hit anything - but it triggered a sonic boom which ...

A small asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere and produced a spectacular fireball in the sky across the far east of Russia in the early hours of Wednesday morning. People from the remote Russian ...

Even more recently, on June 30, 1908, an asteroid plunged into Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the skies over Siberia, and on Feb. 15, 2013, residents of the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia ...

Officials in the Russian city where a meteor fell last month now hope to attract tourists to the area. The 10,000-ton meteor entered the Earth’s atmosphere producing a sonic boom. It shattered ...