On Friday a 10-ton meteor screamed through the Russian sky, creating a sonic shockwave that hurt more than 1,000 people — and led to the creation of some jaw-dropping YouTube videos. But this is about ...

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 ...

The bus-sized meteor that slammed into Russia in February, causing a massive shock-wave and injuring hundreds of people, sent a plume of dust into the stratosphere that circled the globe in just four ...

Eight months after a meteorite exploded over central Russia, divers have hauled a large chunk of space rock out of a lake, giving people a look at the extraterrestrial object that caused damage ...

We're pretty sure this is what Michael Bay dreams of when he goes to sleep: Obviously, the meteor was bigger than your average shooting star and going pretty fast. "The [Russian Academy of Sciences] ...

The 150-foot-wide meteor that flew by Earth Friday and the smaller one that exploded over Russia hours before were too small to be easily detected. They are not even targets in NASA’s surveillance of ...

Chunks of rock fall from space all the time, some of them big enough to do a fair amount of damage. Most of the time, however, nobody’s the wiser: the vast majority of Earth’s surface is ocean, desert ...

Last month, a giant meteor exploded over Russia. Ground zero was the Ural city of Chelyabinsk, where 1500 people were injured and thousands of buildings were damaged. About half the city’s million ...

CHELYABINSK, Russia -- As a small army of people worked to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, many joked on Saturday about what had happened in this troubled ...

Well that’s something you don’t see every day. A meteor crashed down in eastern Russia, and we are lucky enough that someone was able to catch it on video. Health officials say nearly 1,000 people ...

OK, it’s not really local business news, but it is universal: An asteroid hit Russia’s remote Ural Mountains, leaving an estimated 400 people injured, <a href ...