Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...

Scientists have finally confirmed that a mysterious crater half a mile beneath the North Sea was carved out by a massive asteroid strike more than 43 million years ago—ending decades of debate over ...

Can a 3.2-kilometre-wide scar under the North Sea rewrite part of Britain’s geology? More than two decades of argument have ...

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

For the last 20 years geologists have debated what caused the hole in the earth which is under the North Sea, off the East ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

A comet explosion may explain mass extinctions 13,000 years ago, linking the Clovis people's vanishing and mammoth die-off to ...

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

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