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 ...

In the morning of June 30, 1908, the ground trembled in Central Siberia, and a series of flying fireballs, causing a "frightful sound" of explosions, were observed in the sky above the Stony Tunguska ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mysterious 1908 Tunguska explosion that leveled 830 square miles of Siberian forest was almost certainly caused by a comet entering the Earth’s atmosphere, says new Cornell University research.

On June 30, 1908, at 7:14 am in central Siberia, local farmer Semen Semenov witnessed an extraordinary event: he described seeing "the sky split in two," with fire appearing high and wide over the ...

New analysis of iron-rich rock fragments bolsters the asteroid hypothesis. A fiery, spear-shaped pillar appeared in the northwestern sky. When the pillar vanished, five loud bangs, like cannon fire, ...

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 ...