Exploding Meteor

The Geminids will be at their peak this year on the nights of December 14 and 15, and they will be visible in India and other parts of the world.

On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage.

A man's doorbell camera captured an exploding meteor in Derby, UK.

At 4:25 p.m. Saturday afternoon, meteorologists noticed an unusually bright flash signature over the Caribbean waters 170 miles south of Puerto Rico. A spattering of debris showed up on the National Weather Service in San Juan's radar. That's a telltale sign of a meteor or asteroid impact.

Onlookers were left panicking when a meteor exploded over Siberia in Russia on Saturday.

On June 30, 1908, an object the size of an apartment building came hurtling out of the sky and exploded in the atmosphere above Siberia. The Tunguska event, named for a river, flattened trees for 800 square miles.

The United States Air Force has not made any mentions of a meteor that crashed near one of its bases near Greenland on July 25.

A boulder-size asteroid disintegrated over Africa just hours after its discovery on Saturday morning, June 2.

Roughly 466 million years ago, something huge exploded in space and sent shrapnel raining down on Earth. It was the biggest such cataclysm to happen in our celestial neighborhood in some 3 billion years.

The meteor that injured over 1,500 people when it exploded and showered debris over Russia in February may have had a close shave with the Sun earlier, researchers said Tuesday.

Russian authorities estimate that the meteor that entered the Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the sky over the Ural Mountains region caused more than $30 million in damage.

The meteor that streaked across the Russian skies on Friday, injuring around 1,200 people, exploded with a force 30 times greater than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, NASA scientists say.

A small army of workers set to work on Saturday to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters (50 acres) of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.

A 150-foot asteroid hurtled toward Earth's backyard, destined on Friday to make the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. In a chilling coincidence, a meteor exploded above Russia's Ural Mountains just hours before the asteroid was due to zoom past the planet.

A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb on Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring about 1,100 people.

The Geminids will be at their peak this year on the nights of December 14 and 15, and they will be visible in India and other parts of the world.

On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage.

A man's doorbell camera captured an exploding meteor in Derby, UK.

At 4:25 p.m. Saturday afternoon, meteorologists noticed an unusually bright flash signature over the Caribbean waters 170 miles south of Puerto Rico. A spattering of debris showed up on the National Weather Service in San Juan's radar. That's a telltale sign of a meteor or asteroid impact.

Onlookers were left panicking when a meteor exploded over Siberia in Russia on Saturday.

On June 30, 1908, an object the size of an apartment building came hurtling out of the sky and exploded in the atmosphere above Siberia. The Tunguska event, named for a river, flattened trees for 800 square miles.

The United States Air Force has not made any mentions of a meteor that crashed near one of its bases near Greenland on July 25.

A boulder-size asteroid disintegrated over Africa just hours after its discovery on Saturday morning, June 2.

Roughly 466 million years ago, something huge exploded in space and sent shrapnel raining down on Earth. It was the biggest such cataclysm to happen in our celestial neighborhood in some 3 billion years.

The meteor that injured over 1,500 people when it exploded and showered debris over Russia in February may have had a close shave with the Sun earlier, researchers said Tuesday.

Russian authorities estimate that the meteor that entered the Earth's atmosphere and exploded in the sky over the Ural Mountains region caused more than $30 million in damage.

The meteor that streaked across the Russian skies on Friday, injuring around 1,200 people, exploded with a force 30 times greater than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, NASA scientists say.

A small army of workers set to work on Saturday to replace the estimated 200,000 square meters (50 acres) of windows shattered by the shock wave from a meteor that exploded over Russia's Chelyabinsk region.

A 150-foot asteroid hurtled toward Earth's backyard, destined on Friday to make the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. In a chilling coincidence, a meteor exploded above Russia's Ural Mountains just hours before the asteroid was due to zoom past the planet.

A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb on Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring about 1,100 people.