Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. In February 2013, a meteor exploded in the sky of the Russian ...

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The Tunguska event, a seismic blast that rocked a remote Siberian forest more than a century ago, is believed to have been caused by a meteor that exploded before it hit the ground. A new study sheds ...

Today is International Asteroid Day, marking the 111th anniversary of the most destructive asteroid event in recorded history: The Tunguska event. On June 30, 1908 near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River ...

Last month marked the 111th anniversary of the Tunguska event, a blast that flattened trees across half a million acres of Siberian forest on June 20, 1908. Scientists have been puzzling over the ...

The cause of the Tunguska event of 1908 remains a mystery today, even though one of the prevailing theories — that a meteorite had scored the Earth and displaced thousands of trees in Siberia near the ...

There is not a week that goes by without hearing about news of another close call with another small asteroid or a large meteor. Just this past week, the Earth was struck by yet another small object: ...

Trees lie strewn across the Siberian countryside 45 years after a meteorite struck the Earth near Tunguska. AP Photo, File The Tunguska event, a seismic blast that rocked a remote Siberian forest more ...