This was the Tunguska event – an airburst from an object that may have been up to 160 feet (about 50 meters) in diameter. The collision unleashed several megatons of energy, which is roughly the ...

With the Taurid meteor shower now hitting the night skies worldwide, look for what could be a celestial treat – you might see ...

The Tunguska meteor that hit the Earth in 1908 — the largest known natural object to enter the planet’s atmosphere ever — flattened 2,000 square kilometers of forest. Even though the ...

The Tunguska event But even outlandish ideas can have elements of truth, and there are hints that some objects – more than just dust and debris, but less than doomsday size – indeed exist in ...

NEOs are objects that come within about 28 million ... The date also commemorates the 1908 Tunguska Event in which an asteroid struck a remote part of Siberia, obliterating over 80 million trees.