YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

The small asteroid that broke up over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2013, was a reminder about the importance of monitoring small bodies in space that could pose a threat to Earth.

When Chelyabinsk arrived on February 13, 2013, it quickly became a brilliant superbolide meteor over the southern Ural region of Russia; it’s the second largest asteroid airburst in our recorded ...

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 meteorite resulted in 1,147 injuries, including 259 children. The fragments damaged 3,724 houses, 671 educational institutions, 11 social facilities, 69 cultural sites and five ...

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 ...

Planetary scientists weren’t remotely expecting the 62-foot-wide Chelyabinsk fireball to shoot across Russian skies in February -- they’d had their eyes peeled on a much bigger target that ...

In February 2013, Russians near the city of Chelyabinsk got a huge surprise in the early morning: A chunk of asteroid 17 meters (50+ feet) across came screaming into the atmosphere over their ...

Long before the Chelyabinsk asteroid slammed into the atmosphere over Russia last year, it struck another space rock in a high-intensity mash-up that put it on a collision course with Earth ...

The Chelyabinsk meteor was also a reminder to humanity, that the sky above us is filled with small rocks that could have big impacts. And it was a wake-up call to the Earth that it could be hit by ...

To study the meteorite fragment and its internal components (including mineral composition), a 0.53g fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteor, which exploded over Russia on Feb. 15, 2013, was imaged ...