The asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk injured around 1,500 people, damaged thousands of buildings, and exposed an uncomfortable truth: scientists completely missed it, even as they were ...

In this photo taken with a mobile phone camera, a meteorite contrail is seen in Chelyabinsk region on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russia’s Ural Mountains on Friday ...

MOSCOW — A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 ...

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.