An explosion powerful enough to destroy millions of trees should have left behind a giant crater. Instead, when scientists ...
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.
Around 7:15 am on June 30 in 1908, during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, an object from space entered Earth's atmosphere over ...
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?
This gas loss, called a galactic wind, is likely driven by intense star formation and supernova explosions. When galaxies collide, the encounter can trigger a frenzy of star formation. Huge clouds of ...
A small body in the Kuiper Belt, beyond Neptune, has exhibited an atmosphere. The last time astronomers found an atmosphere ...
Two trains have collided in the Bedford area, police have said. Aerial footage of the aftermath shows the two damaged East Midlands Railway (EMR) trains with most carriages on the tracks but at least ...