The meteor's size is now thought to be slightly larger, about 17 m wide with the power of the blast estimate of about 500 kilotons, 30 kilotons higher than before, NASA officials said in a statement.

In case you are wondering, meteoroids enter the atmosphere at speeds between 25,000 and 160,000 mph. However, like a bullet hitting water, the earth's thick air quickly slows them (rapid ...

A meteorite flew across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains, showering fragments of rock over the area and causing explosions. More than 400 people were injured as the debris fell to the ground ...

Mystery is surrounding flashes of ‘acid-green’ and ‘yellow-green’ over a city in Russia where a 13,000 tonne meteor struck Earth. Footage shows the light appearing in the sky over ...

In clear weather, bright meteors will be visible throughout Russia," the planetarium said. The Geminid meteor shower surpasses all other annual meteor showers in terms of the number of "shooting ...

Part of a giant meteorite from outer space has been safely recovered from a Russian lake, online news website RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday. As scuba divers tried to raise the rock from the ...

TASS/. Celestial bodies, similar in size to the Chelyabinsk meteorite that struck Russia’s Urals ten years ago, land on the country’s territory approximately once in 20-50 years, a Russian ...

The Chelyabinsk meteor (labelled ChM) appears to have been on an elliptical orbit around the Sun before it collided with Earth (BBC) Astronomers from Colombia have traced the origin of a meteor ...