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 ...

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 ...

A meteor enters the Earth's atmosphere. In February 2013, a meteor exploded in the sky of the Russian town of Čeljabinsk, causing widespread damage and injuring more than 1,200 people. It was the ...

The Tunguska event is often described as the biggest impact event in recorded human history. In the early morning hours of June 30, 1908, something caused a colossal explosion and a shining ball of ...

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 ...

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 ...