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

But YR4, is a bit bigger, at 40-90 meters in diameter, about the size of jumbo jet, similar to the Tunguska asteroid. DAVID COWARD, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA: This is classified as a "city ...

YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" of Earth impact.

Alternatively, instead of slamming into Earth's surface, 2024 YR4 may enter Earth's atmosphere but explode in mid air in what's known as an 'airburst,' like Tunguska asteroid in 1908.

Scientists estimate that the impact could be similar to that of the Tunguska asteroid which flattened 830 square miles (2,150 square km) of Siberian forest in 1908 - an area more than double the ...

But it’s no coincidence that Tunguska, the largest asteroid impact in recorded history, struck an unpopulated area; that describes most of Earth, especially given that over 70 percent of the ...

There is a possibility that the asteroid could explode in mid-air similar to the Tunguska asteroid in 1908, which still caused the largest impact event in Earth’s history. The force of the ...

and if it can be confirmed that it is a rocky asteroid, the effects would be similar to those of the Tunguska impact in 1908, where a surface area of (2,000 square kilometers) was devastated and ...

While we all know the time an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, it was only a century ago that we saw the largest space-related explosion in human history. The Tunguska Event occurred on June 30 ...