On the morning of Feb. 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, sending a loud shockwave and sonic boom across the region, damaging buildings and leaving around 1,200 people ...

The latest analysis of the bollide that burst over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February suggests that the risk from such airbursts — which occur when friction in our atmosphere heats up a meteor — may be ...

The meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February 2013 was "a wake-up call," according to a University of California, Davis scientist who participated in analyzing the event. The work is ...

The explosion of the Chelyabinsk Meteor, which nearly hit Russia in 2013, was a viral event captured by dozens of dashcams in ...

On Feb. 15, 2013, a small asteroid collided with Earth. It came in over Russia at a low angle, slamming into our atmosphere, violently compressing the air in front of it. That created a vast amount of ...

Where did the Chelyabinsk meteorite come from? As a meteoroid, it either collided with another body in the solar system or came too close to the Sun before it fell to Earth, according to new research.

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New details about the origin, structure, and impact of the meteor that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Feb. 13, 2013, are reported in three separate papers published Wednesday. Thanks ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. I don’t mean this blog to be all asteroids all the time, but a new video just came out (via Universe ...

“Three years have passed since the Chelyabinsk (Russia) great scare, and during this time more than two hundred research papers — 50 in the last year — related directly or indirectly to the ...