An explosion powerful enough to destroy millions of trees should have left behind a giant crater. Instead, when scientists ...
Scientists from the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona and the University of Bordeaux in France have found that millions of comets could be racing towards the inner solar system because of ...
On June 30, 1908, a giant fireball exploded over the forests of Tunguska in Siberia. The impact leveled hundreds of miles of ...
June 30 marks Tunguska, Congo independence, and Soyuz 11, plus events from Hernán Cortés to Tower Bridge, Hitler’s purge, and ...
The Tunguska space object was most likely a fragment of a comet’s icy nucleus, which turned into a cloud of water vapor at the moment of the blast, expl ...
This year’s Asteroid Day has planned events worldwide and online. It acts as a reminder about advances in planetary defense.
A major black hole merger event is unfolding only 500 million light-years away, and when it happens, Earth will feel the ...
T. Coronae Borealis undergoes a dramatic nova explosion once every 80 years on average, causing it to shine as bright as ...
Could a 13,000-year-old comet have sparked the rise of agriculture?
A small body in the Kuiper Belt, beyond Neptune, has exhibited an atmosphere. The last time astronomers found an atmosphere ...
A witness to the Bedford train crash says he heard “crying, screaming” and said some passengers seemed to have major injuries ...
A massive explosion rocked a Pennsylvania community on Thursday morning, injuring three people and damaging several houses.According to reports from WTAE's ABC affiliate, WNEP, police said a propane ...