In February 2013, a meteor measuring around 19 meters in diameter and weighing a whopping 12,000 tonnes sped toward Earth at ...

The asteroid appears to be about two to three times larger than the bolides that struck Russia in 1908 and 2013. The former flattened a large area of remote Siberian forest and may have been ...

The nearest humans have come to this scale of event was the Tunguska event in 1908 when a 50-metre asteroid exploded in the skies above Siberia. The Nadir asteroid was about the size of Bennu ...

A 150-foot wide asteroid is expected to make a record-close ... scientists say it's about the same size as the one that hit Siberia more than 100 years ago on June 30, 1908.

The Great Meteor of 1947 Little has been told of the small asteroid that three years ago crashed into a Siberian forest. A brief account of one of the most impressive natural events witnessed by man ...

The mysterious ‘Tunguska event’ was the largest asteroid impact in recorded history and caused an explosion 1,000 times more ...

Scientists in the Russian city of Irkutsk (Siberia) are searching for people ... and the Republic of Buryatia witnessed a bright green meteor soaring above Lake Baikal. It was later dubbed the ...

on June 30 near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia, Russia, "The Tunguska Event" occurred. The generally accepted theory is that either an asteroid or comet entered Earth's atmosphere and ...