The massive crater appeared violently and explosively in the Siberian tundra last year – a powerful blowout of methane gas throwing ice and rock hundreds of feet away and leaving a gaping ...

Giant Crater in Siberia May Have Exploded From Climate Change-Induced Cryovolcanism. Published Sep 04, 2020 at 6:23 AM EDT. By . Hannah Osborne is Nesweek's Science Editor, based in London, UK.

Parts of Siberia's landscape are a ticking time bomb. Giant craters started mysteriously appearing 10 years ago. A team of scientists think they finally know why. Tucked away in the frigid ...

"Crater 1" - the first reported crater in 2014 on the Yamal peninsula. Vasily Bogoyavlensky/The Siberia Since then, scientists have identified 17 other large craters.

A giant crater has been discovered on Siberia's Arctic tundra, with scientists saying the 165 foot deep hole was formed through an explosion that hurled soil and ice hundreds of feet from the ...

Earlier this month, a pilot and his passengers reportedly found a gaping hole in the Earth while flying over a remote part of northern Siberia. Now almost two weeks later, two more holes have ...

Scientists offered a new explanation for the huge craters that keep appearing in Siberia. These craters, first spotted in 2012, can be more than 160 feet deep and over 65 feet wide. They may be due to ...

Last summer, the discovery of several new giant craters in Siberia drew worldwide interest, launching wild speculation that meteorites, or even aliens, caused the gaping crevasses. And now ...

Is the Siberian permafrost exploding? Recent reports out of the Arctic Circle suggest that methane pockets are erupting and causing huge craters, but scientists aren’t so sure that these ...

(NEWSER) – More mysterious craters have been spotted in Siberia, and researchers are starting to sound more than a little alarmed about the phenomenon. Vasily Bogoyavlensky, deputy director of ...

A crater on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia. Scientists aren't sure what caused these craters to form in the Siberian Arctic, where the permafrost is thawing. (Image credit: Itar-Tass/Zuma) ...