They say that Russia is the motherland of conspiracy theories, and public reaction to the sudden meteor strike a week ago that stunned people in the Ural mountains, and injured more than 1,200 ...

Scientists say a meteor traveling more than 35,000 miles per hour exploded about 20 miles above Chelyabinsk, Russia. The shock waves shattered glass and damaged buildings on the ground, leaving ...

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The meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February likely had a near miss before it hit Earth, possibly with another solar system object or a too-close graze by the sun, scientists ...

Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, injuring 1,200 people. Even small fragments, they ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring about ...

A piece of the Chelyabinsk meteorite is displayed in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill June 17, 2015 in Washington, DC in this illustrative image.

The meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, on February 15, 2013, at around 9:20 a.m. local time. NASA says that the meteor was traveling around 11 miles per second (17 kilometers per second ...

MOSCOW — With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky Friday and exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs, injuring ...

The meteorite fell to earth a decade after the Chelyabinsk meteor hit Russia on February 15, 2013. Unlike this most recent event, the Chelyabinsk meteor was large, at 59 feet long.