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 ...

A full century after the mysterious Tunguska explosion in Siberia leveled an area nearly the size of Tokyo, debate continues over what caused it. Many questions remain as to what crashed into the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A burning meteor flying past Earth On June 30, 1908, an asteroid flattened an estimated 80 million trees in Siberia over 830 ...

Explore the Tunguska Event, a mysterious celestial explosion that flattened Siberian forest over a century ago and its implications today. One hundred years ago today, a fireball streaked across the ...

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 ...

Discover the Tunguska impact event's secrets! New analyses reveal it was caused by a meteoroid, 105 years after the 1908 explosion. Damage from the 1908 Tunguska impact as documented by Leonid Kulik ...

The standard version of the “Tunguska event” goes like this: A small asteroid or comet fragment entered Earth’s atmosphere June 30, 1908, over Siberia. It exploded from the heat of reentry before ...