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TEMPLE, Texas — Some residents of Russia were treated to a special sight on Dec. 3 as an asteroid soared overhead, causing a fireball as it entered Earth's atmosphere, according to the European ...

We know from the past what effects a meteorite impact can have. Sometimes they were enough to form full-fledged lakes.’ The Oreshnik missile is a medium-range missile that Russia deployed for ...

In clear weather, bright meteors will be visible throughout Russia," the planetarium said. The Geminid meteor shower surpasses all other annual meteor showers in terms of the number of "shooting ...

On Friday, a meteor exploded 32,000 feet above the Chelyabinsk region of Russia, lighting up the sky and producing a shockwave that shook buildings and shattered windows. At least 1,000 people ...

A small asteroid burned up in a spectacular fireball over northeastern Russia on Wednesday, barely hours after it was detected. The asteroid, measuring just about 70cm in diameter, was spotted ...

A meteorite flew across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains, showering fragments of rock over the area and causing explosions. More than 400 people were injured as the debris fell to the ground ...

"If you want to compare it to a previous asteroid impact, the Tunguska event in Russia in 1908 involved an asteroid that was roughly similar in size to this one," Lee recalled. "It exploded above ...

TASS/. Celestial bodies, similar in size to the Chelyabinsk meteorite that struck Russia’s Urals ten years ago, land on the country’s territory approximately once in 20-50 years, a Russian ...

A meteorite plunged to earth near Chelyabinsk, over 900 miles east of Moscow. WSJ's Greg White reports that hundreds were injured by the explosion but there was no major destruction. Photo ...

And just like that asteroid that blew out windows in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013, no one saw this one coming. What’s different is that this one fortunately zoomed right by our planet ...