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

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...

The most likely scenario is that the asteroid is a rocky pile of rubble. If that turns out to be the case, then the impact would be very similar to the Tunguska event in 1908. The asteroid would ...

The most likely scenario is that the asteroid is a rocky pile of rubble. If that turns out to be the case, then the impact would be very similar to the Tunguska event in 1908. The asteroid would ...

The diameter of the asteroid is similar to the asteroid that caused the Tunguska incident in Siberia in 1908; where a meteorite explosion over the region destroyed about 2,000sqkm of forest and ...

The outlet further reported that the “city killer” comet is roughly 90 meters in width, which is around the same size as the Tunguska asteroid that impacted a large portion of the Siberian ...

The asteroid is about the same size as the Tunguska meteor. In 1908, a meteor exploded over the Russian Tunguska River with a detonation that may have been as large as 50 megatons. It flattened an ...

Based on the Tunguska asteroid which flattened 830 square miles (2,150 square km)of Siberian forest in 1908, conservative estimates put the 2024 YR4 asteroid's destructive power at 15 megatons of TNT.

NASA's new observations of the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, led to a 2.3 per cent probability of hitting Earth on 22 December ...

In 1908, the Tunguska asteroid, which was a similar size, flattened trees over an area of about 1,250 miles after it exploded in the skies over Siberia. Congress has tasked NASA with locating ...