F or more than two decades, the Silverpit crater, a strange circular depression hidden under the North Sea, has baffled ...

A remarkable scientific breakthrough has resolved a long-standing debate about the origin of the Silverpit crater, located deep below the North Sea, off the coast of Yorkshire. After years of ...

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 m deep ...

After a catastrophic asteroid impact 78 million years ago, life didn't just survive—it thrived, at least according to new ...

Research indicates that pyrite began to form 5 million years after the impact, suggesting that the hydrothermal system had ...

Scientists finally unravelled the mystery of the huge Silverpit Crater off Yorkshire North Sea coast in a new research study.

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread. Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business. Case ...

An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research ...

Scientists thought that an Australian museum’s collection of tektites came from an 800,000-year-old asteroid strike on Earth. Some of them turned out to be much older.

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

Scientists have discovered that microbial life colonised the Lappajarvi impact crater in Finland shortly after a massive ...