Images from a 2D Spheral simulation showing the fragmentation of the Chelyabinsk bolide as it descends through the atmosphere. Credit: LLNL Planetary Defense program Images from a 2D Spheral ...

An asteroid that exploded last year over Chelyabinsk, Russia, leaving more than 1,000 people injured by flying glass and debris, collided with another asteroid before hitting Earth, new research by ...

Divers working at Lake Chebarkul have recovered a half-ton piece of the meteorite that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. The fly-over, a viral, online sensation at the time (the YouTube ...

LOGAN — Shortly after first light on Feb. 15, 2013, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky before exploding with an estimated blast yield of up to 500 kilotons of TNT — far more powerful than ...

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 ...

Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it's actually the result of normal geological processes.

The meteor was seen over the region's skies early on July 11 CHELYABINSK, July 11. /TASS/. A meteor spotted in the sky over Russia's Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals is part of a common occurrence and ...

Professor K.T. Ramesh's How to Stop an Asteroid course introduces first-year Johns Hopkins undergrads to both the engineering ...