GETTING AROUND The meteor that exploded above Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February created a particle plume (red and yellow) that eventually wrapped around the Northern Hemisphere. NASA GSFC ...

A decade ago today, the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia unexpectedly found itself under assault from space, as a roughly 60-foot-wide asteroid exploded over the region. It was a shocking reminder that ...

Months after a 62-foot-wide fireball streaked through the morning sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia, scientists are starting to get a handle on the rock’s composition, trajectory and impact.

On February 15, 2013, people near Chelyabinsk, Russia felt the ground shake, smelled the sour stench of sulfur, heard windows shatter into sprays of glass and had to look away from a fireball in ...

NPR's Anne Garrels followed developments in the "real Russia" in the 1990s from the provincial town of Chelyabinsk. Ten years ago, the Russian economy fell, and the remote industrial town faded ...