The Russian meteor was probably about 6 1/2 feet across, about the size of an SUV, said Richard Binzel, a professor of Planetary Science at MIT.

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 about 1,100 people.

The meteor that crashed to earth in Russia was about 55 feet in diameter, weighed around 10,000 tons and was made from a stony material, scientists said, making it the largest such object to hit ...

A massive blast, possibly from a meteor explosion, rocked parts of eastern Russia Friday (Feb. 15), according to news reports. Speculation on what caused the blast is rampant.

The arrival of the Russian meteor on the day of a close flyby by asteroid 2012 DA14 is just a weird cosmic coincidence. Videos of the Russian object show it traveling north to south, NASA has found.

The team also confirmed that this was the biggest space impact since the 1908 Tunguska meteor. The more recent incident released the energy equivalent of 460 kilotons of TNT, or 30 Hiroshima bombs ...

The bus-sized meteor that slammed into Russia in February, causing a massive shock-wave and injuring hundreds of people, sent a plume of dust into the stratosphere that circled the globe in just ...

When a meteor exploded over Russia in February, pieces of the bus-sized space rock hit the ground while its detonation shattered windows, set off car alarms and injured more than 1,000 people ...

CHEBARKUL, Russia, Feb. 17, 2013— -- Scientists confirmed today the first recovered fragments of the giant meteor that exploded over this region on Friday, according to Russian media. The ...

One year later, the impact of the surprise Russian meteor explosion is still being felt all over the world. On Feb. 15, 2013, a 65-foot-wide (20 meters) asteroid detonated in the skies over the ...

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