The Fox drama is heading into its series finale with an asteroid hitting Austin, which may sound like something you'd only see in a screenplay — but was actually inspired by a real-life meteor that ...

On February 15, 2013, the Sun had barely begun to rise over southeastern Russia when a brilliant ball of light illuminated the sky. A 10,000-ton meteor hurtling at 43,000 miles per hour shot across ...

The meteor was seen over the region's skies early on July 11 CHELYABINSK, July 11. /TASS/. A meteor spotted in the sky over Russia's Chelyabinsk Region in the Urals is part of a common occurrence and ...

WASHINGTON -- Scientists studying the meteor that exploded without warning over a Russian city last winter say the threat of space rocks smashing into Earth is bigger than they thought. Meteors about ...

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 “on a ...

Today's meteror can be tomorrow's (star) dust. Feb. 19, 2013 -- Meteorite hunters are converging on Chelyabinsk, Russia, seeking pieces of a space rock that exploded above that city last week, ...

Chunks of rock fall from space all the time, some of them big enough to do a fair amount of damage. Most of the time, however, nobody’s the wiser: the vast majority of Earth’s surface is ocean, desert ...

LOGAN — Shortly after first light on Feb. 15, 2013, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky before exploding with an estimated blast yield of up to 500 kilotons of TNT — far more powerful than ...