10 years ago today, the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion showed why we need ... a city in the Ural region of Russia. Chodas was skeptical at first. "Initially, there was a lot of confusion.

When a massive asteroid exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, 2012, it injured more than 1,200 people and damaged hundreds of buildings. In the nine months since the asteroid ...

The Chelyabinsk meteor was a small asteroid — about the size of a six-story building — that broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013. The blast was stronger than a ...

The meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia on February 15 was thought to have been around 15 meters in diameter before hitting the atmosphere and breaking into many pieces, with its largest ...

The area around Chelyabinsk is also home to nuclear and chemical weapons disposal facilities. Vladimir Chuprov of Greenpeace Russia noted that the area where the meteor exploded was 60 miles from ...

Russian city working to replace thousands of shattered windows. CHELYABINSK, Russia, Feb. 16, 2013— -- A day after a massive meteor exploded over this city in central Russia, a monumental ...

Instead, the Chelyabinsk meteorite started its 18-second death plunge heading east across central Russia, in the Northern Hemisphere. Astronomers didn't see it coming because of its relatively ...

Two 15- to 20-gram samples of the Chelyabinsk meteorite that NASA obtained from Russia over a year ago reveal a broad range of information about the meteor’s mineralogy, bulk composition and age ...

Residents hope city will be tourist destination; others seek meteor bits. CHELYABINSK, Russia, Feb. 17, 2013— -- The shattered glass and broken walls caused by the massive explosion of a ...

In this frame grab made from dashboard camera video Friday, a meteor streaks through the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia, about 930 miles east of Moscow. With a blinding flash and a booming shock ...

The Chebarkul meteorite has yielded plenty of fragments ... a wide variety of other offbeat explanations are available for the Chelyabinsk event. Russian ultranationalist parliamentarian Vladimir ...

Scientists studying the dramatic Chelyabinsk meteor that screamed through Russian skies this year have both good and bad news to report. The good news: The February fireball’s damage wasn’t ...