In 1908, a 30-meter-wide (98-foot-wide) asteroid struck the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in a remote Siberian forest of Russia, according to the Planetary Society. The event leveled trees and destroyed ...

The last major asteroid event in recent history was the 18m-wide meteorite that hit Chelyabinsk in Russia in 2013. The fireball turned night into day and released an estimated 500 kilotons of energy ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

Lake Baikal in Siberia stands as one of Earth’s most astonishing natural wonders. Its staggering depth—reaching over ...

The night sky over Kyiv was lit up by what some have speculated may have been a comet or meteor - shortly before Russia launched yet another series of drone strikes. With no official confirmation ...

We know from the past what effects a meteorite impact can have. Sometimes they were enough to form full-fledged lakes.’ The Oreshnik missile is a medium-range missile that Russia deployed for ...

The meteor that exploded over Russia Friday was slightly larger than previously thought and more powerful, too, NASA scientists say. The explosion over the city of Chelyabinsk, on Friday injured ...

Part of a giant meteorite from outer space has been safely recovered from a Russian lake, online news website RIA Novosti ...

A Soyuz rocket has launched a new weather satellite for the Russian Government Friday, replacing a similar spacecraft lost in a 2017 launch failure. The Meteor-M satellite, accompanied by a host ...

In clear weather, bright meteors will be visible throughout Russia," the planetarium said. The Geminid meteor shower surpasses all other annual meteor showers in terms of the number of "shooting ...

A meteorite flew across the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains, showering fragments of rock over the area and causing explosions. More than 400 people were injured as the debris fell to the ground ...

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