On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion occurred in Tunguska, Siberia, flattening 80 million trees. Scientists now believe it ...

There would be a crater, the middle of Ireland would be ... The asteroid is about the same size as the Tunguska meteor. In 1908, a meteor exploded over the Russian Tunguska River with a detonation ...

In less than a minute, a Mexico-bound air ambulance jet that departed Philadelphia on Friday night, climbed to 1,500 feet before it took a steep nosedive, crashing into the ground, and leaving an ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or ... rather than leaving a crater on the ground. "We can calculate the energy... using the mass and the speed," said ...

and the 50,000-year-old Meteor Crater in northern Arizona. In more recent history, a mysterious explosion in rural Russia on June 30, 1908 turned out to be the result of an air burst from an asteroid; ...

We all know how an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. So whenever one of these lumps of space rocks gets anywhere near us, it’s easy to panic. And there’s a 1.3% chance of exactly this happening.

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A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.

Colossal American Impact Crater Found—Three Times Bigger Than the Grand Canyon Posted: January 29, 2025 | Last updated: January 29, 2025 Approximately 35 million years ago, a colossal asteroid ...