Massive craters are forming in Siberia due to explosive methane releases from thawing permafrost. The phenomenon is a ...

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of giant exploding craters spotted in western Siberia, known to blast soil and ice hundreds of feet into the air. These craters, known as giant gas ...

More than a decade after mysterious holes were first discovered in the permafrost of Western Siberia, scientists are still ...

The mysterious holes popping out of nowhere were actually little wounds caused by explosions triggered by a gas trapped below.

YAMAL PENINSULA, Russia — A Russian TV crew flying over the Siberian tundra this summer spotted a massive crater 30 meters (100 feet) deep and 20 meters wide — striking in its size, symmetry and the ...

Over the last ten years, strange craters have torn open the icy ground of Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula. These gaping holes, first spotted in 2014, were soon linked to sudden methane explosions triggered ...

In 1908, a blast flattened 80 million trees in Siberia. No crater. No meteor. But halfway across the world, Nikola Tesla had ...

Over a century ago, on the morning of the June, 30, 1908, a stupendous explosion occurred over the Tunguska forest of Siberia. The resulting shock waves were detected on seismographs thousands of ...