When a massive asteroid exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, 2012, it injured more than 1,200 people and damaged hundreds of buildings. In the nine months since the asteroid ...

“Three years have passed since the Chelyabinsk (Russia) great scare, and during this time more than two hundred research papers — 50 in the last year — related directly or indirectly to the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The vapor trail from the Chelyabinsk impact (the streak of cloud at the upper left) seen by Elektro-L, taken just 10 minutes after the event. All photo by Roscosmos / NTSOMZ/ SRC "Planeta" / ...

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from Colorado State University, the University of Wisconsin and NOAA has found that several satellites orbiting the Earth at the time of the Chelyabinsk ...

A man from the Russian town where 1,100 people were injured by a high-altitude meteor explosion is relieved that his family made it through the incident. It was a meteoric wakeup call captured on dash ...

When an 11,000-metric-ton meteor ripped through Earth’s atmosphere on February 15, 2013, it left behind a streak of dust that encircled the planet, satellite data show. The space rock, which was 18 ...

Chelyabinsk, located on the Miass River the southeastern Ural Mountains, is one of those largely ignored workhorses that form the backbone of Russian heavy industry. When the town’s relative obscurity ...