One of the biggest asteroid impact events in modern history occurred in 1908, when something exploded in the skies over Russia forest. Trees were flattened in all directions, leveling 2,000 square km ...

Over a century ago, on the morning of the June, 30, 1908, a stupendous explosion occurred over the Tunguska forest of Siberia. The resulting shock waves were detected on seismographs thousands of ...

Scientists are uncovering signs that Earth has been hit by powerful cosmic blasts that leave little trace on the surface yet ...

Many say it was a meteor blast that flattened a Siberian forest and left a large impact crater when the "Tunguska Event" happened over 100 years ago. New research debunks part of the story. Eric Mack ...

For most of human history, the story of cosmic catastrophe has been told in craters: scars like Chicxulub that mark where ...

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In early summer 1908, something blew up – quite impressively – over a remote location in Siberia near the Podkamennaya Tunguska river. Trees were flattened for hundreds of square kilometers, the ...

The Tunguska collision is a reminder of potential hazards from space. July 1, 2008 — -- Summertime — a time for sunny days, beach weekends and of course, leisurely reflections on the end of the ...

After nearly 100 years of searches, researchers have found what may be an impact crater made by the object that caused a huge blast over the remote Siberian area of Tunguska on 30 June 1908. Others ...