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

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

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

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

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

Forty-three million years ago, a 160-meter-diameter asteroid hit the area now occupied by the North Sea, releasing a 30-story ...

It’s been nearly a few weeks since Bass Canyon 2025 returned for its 7th year, and we still can’t get the weekend off of our ...

Scientists traced microbial life in Finland’s 78M-year-old Lappajärvi crater to just 4–5 million years after impact, using isotopic signatures of sulfate- and methane-cycling bacteria.

An ancient asteroid impact in Australia is revealed in shards of glass created when the giant space rock collided with the ...

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

New research shows microbes colonized a Finnish impact crater 73.6 million years ago, lasting over 10 million years.