On February 15, 2013, a small asteroid exploded over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of ...

A meteor — a particularly large and bright type known as a bolide meteor — detonated high above in the atmosphere Monday ...

A large, bright meteor called a bolide meteor exploded high in the atmosphere near Florida's Gulf Coast on Monday night.

NASA is weighing in on the New Year’s Day boom heard across the Pittsburgh region. Researchers confirmed an exploding meteor was the “likely culprit” and estimated the size of the object at about ...

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...

In 2008, a 13-foot-wide asteroid entered the Earth's atmosphere, zoomed across the sky and exploded 23 miles above the Nubian desert of northern Sudan. The explosion - far from human habitation - lit ...