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

Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

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 ...

The "potentially hazardous" asteroid 2025 FA22 will fly close past Earth at more than 24,000 mph on Thursday (Sept. 18). The ...

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

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved.

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

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