109 years ago today, a meteor crossed paths with Earth and blew apart in the air above a remote area of northern Russia, near the Tunguska River, on June 30, 1908. Wind from the blast flattened trees ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In June 1908, a mysterious blast occurred above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska, Siberia, with 1,000 times more power than the Hiroshima bomb, flattening trees over an area roughly the size of ...

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: ...

I find the existence of what I would call "science fiction folklore" set in Eastern Europe to be quite interesting. It revolves around nuclear radiation and mysterious, otherworldly beings as ...

This release is available in German. 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 ...

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 ...