The Chelyabinsk meteor exploded over Russia with a force of 40 Hiroshima nuclear bombs. Damage stretched for 500 square kilometers, destroying 7,200 building and injuring over 1,400 people in its ...

The meteor that exploded over Russia Friday was slightly larger than previously thought and more powerful, too, NASA scientists say. The explosion over the city of Chelyabinsk, on Friday injured ...

it cracked and split into three parts," said Chelyabinsk Region Governor Mikhail Yurevich. The fragment is believed to be the largest one from a meteor that exploded over the Urals region last ...

Badyukov, who headed the institute’s expedition to the Chelyabinsk meteorite’s landing site, said that about one hundred of its fragments have been recovered to date, weighing 2-3 kilograms in ...

The Chelyabinsk meteorite was several times larger. The fragments of the one that was seen today can still be found. It is essential to draw an accurate trajectory to see where the debris may have ...

That means each fragment could have been up to 1,250 metres wide - more than 60 times larger than the Chelyabinsk meteor which exploded over Russia in 2013. Dr Kring says: 'The energy to produce ...

In February 2013, a fireball streaked through the clear morning sky in Russia's Chelyabinsk region. Hundreds of people were injured after the meteor blew apart in the atmosphere resulting in a ...

Bridenstine noted that in February 2013, a meteor measuring 20 meters (65.6 feet) in diameter, traveling at 40,000 miles per hour entered Earth's atmosphere and crashed over Chelyabinsk region in ...