Your donation today will help MinnPost continue to report on the news you need. They say that Russia is the motherland of conspiracy theories, and public reaction to the sudden meteor strike a week ...

Images from a 2D Spheral simulation showing the fragmentation of the Chelyabinsk bolide as it descends through the atmosphere. Credit: LLNL Planetary Defense program Images from a 2D Spheral ...

On Feb. 15, 2013, the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, experienced a shocking event, and yet it was a small fraction of the devastation an asteroid on a collision course with Earth could yield. As ...

NASA is looking to bolster its asteroid detection efforts following a small asteroid that struck Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013, which damaged 7,000 buildings and injured more than 1,000 from flying ...

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 using X ...

Earth’s defense systems against giant space rocks are woefully inadequate, leaving the planet dangerously exposed, a leading expert has warned. Colossal asteroids and meteors hurtling through our ...

CHELYABINSK, February 13. /TASS/. Information and experience, obtained during the recent search of the meteorite that exploded above the Urals city of Chelyabinsk, may help scientists in solving the ...

There's a lot of stuff floating around in space. It is estimated that about 100-300 metric tons of cosmic dust enter Earth's atmosphere every single day. Particles larger than 2 millimeters in ...

On the morning of Feb. 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, sending a loud shockwave and sonic boom across the region, damaging buildings and leaving around 1,200 people ...