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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...