Articles related to "Tunguska"

Strange luminescence filled the skies and a cylindrical object was seen. Mainstream science maintained the cause was a meteorite. Others believed it was an UFO exploding.

Also known as the Tunguska Event, the cause of this explosion in Russia remains a debate among scientists, though it's believed to be a meteorite or comet crash.

Scientists have pinpointed the cause behind the 1908 explosion of a space object over Siberia.

Questions remain nearly 100 years since the Tunguska Event of 1908 devastated the Central Siberian forest: Was it ball lightning? Did the event trigger climate change?

Of the many threats posed to life on Earth by objects from outer space, meteors have a history of killing before and can do so again without warning.

Is Comet Enke and the Taurid Meteor Shower that caused the Tunguska Event in 1908 on an inevitable second collision course with Earth?

Near-Earth Objects are chunks of space rock that hurtle around our corner of the Universe. One of them, called 99942 Apophis, is being watched carefully by astronomers.

Learn more about the thousands of miniature planets called asteroids that orbit the sun.

An asteroid approximately 60 meters in diameter has a 1-in-25 chance of smashing into Mars on January 30, 2008.

Astronomy has many creative and strange names for the bizarre and wacky objects in the universe. Learn some new words today.

A sudden explosion of carbon dioxide under pressure caused Lake Nyos in Africa to emit a lethal gas that asphyxiated all living organisms within a 15-mile radius.

Earthlings may not have to lose sleep just yet, but here are four ways that show how life on Earth would come to an end.

Ten cross country skiers led by Igor Dyatlov, set out for adventure. Yuri Yudin became ill and stayed behind. He and many others have theories, but no true explanations.

After a fireball falling from the sky smashed into the high plains in the Andes near Lake Titicaca, onlookers who went near the crater become nauseated.