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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Feb. 15, 2003, a meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, showing why we need better methods of detecting and tracking near-Earth asteroids.

Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing ...

Chelyabinsk was considered a small asteroid - that and its arrival during daylight is why it was hard to see coming. "We're still vulnerable to those that are coming from the sun," admits Mr Johnson.

Upon encountering our planet's dense atmospheric layer, the asteroid exploded, briefly outshining the sun. The explosion took place above the Chelyabinsk Oblast and was so powerful that the ...