A 66-foot asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 with a flash brighter than the Sun, but the shockwave arrived about 90 seconds later, smashing windows and injuring roughly 1,500 people.

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Russian authorities claim to have found the impact sites of some of the fragments of the Chelyabinsk meteor, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. Two have been found near Chebarkul Lake—one of ...

Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday. The huge specimen weighing more ...

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Photos from the meteorite explosion over the Chelyabinsk region of Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor exploded in the sky above Russia on Friday, causing a shockwave that blew out windows ...

More than 500 people were injured Friday after a meteorite exploded in the sky above central Russia, Reuters reported. According to the Russian Academy of Sciences, the meteorite weighed about 10 tons ...

Moscow — Russian investigators have prevented a giant meteorite fragment being smuggled to Britain disguised as a garden ornament, the Federal Customs Service reported Thursday. The huge specimen ...