In the summer of 1908, a blast over remote Siberia flattened trees across an area larger than some countries and lit the sky as far away as Europe. With no crater, no confirmed meteorite fragments and ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Destructive comets, like the one many people say slammed into the Tunguska region of Siberia last century, are much rarer than we think, new research finds. Australian scientist Dr Paul Francis of the ...

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 ...

In the early morning of June 30, 1908, a massive explosion flattened entire forests in a remote region of Eastern Siberia along the Tunguska River. Curiously, the explosion left no crater, creating a ...

The “Tunguska Event” refers to the tremendous explosion on the morning of June 30, 1908, that laid waste to about 2150 square kilometres of Siberia in the region to the north and north-west of Lake ...

Moscow/Bologna/Halle. The Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain. This is the conclusion reached by Russian, Italian and German researchers based on the results of ...

On June 30, 1908, a catastrophic explosion rocked the skies over Eastern Siberia, releasing an energy equivalent to 10–15 megatons of TNT. Known as the Tunguska event, this mysterious occurrence ...

The apparent explosion of a small meteor over Siberia early Friday wasn't the first time that that part of the world has had a too-close encounter with a space rock. The region was the scene of what's ...

In all likelihood, June 30, 1908, began as a normal morning in Siberia. At last, the frozen boreal woods had given way to the thaw of early summer. The dawn was interrupted when a light nearly as ...