Varvara Grankova Was it a meteorite, a comet, or an alien spaceship? People are still discussing what exactly it was that exploded in the sky above the Siberian taiga in the year 1908. For this first ...

Early on the morning of June 30, 1908, a massive explosion rocked the Siberian wilderness flattening more than 2,000 square kilometres of forest. Villagers 100 kilometres away from the Podkamennaya ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Russian scientist may have found the first fragments of the object that caused the 1908 Tunguska Event, and this may finally put to rest the enduring mystery of what caused the event. In the early ...

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 ...