We generally believe that the forces shaping the Earth come from volcanoes, earthquakes, and the slow drift of continental plates. The significance of meteorite impacts cannot be overlooked, as ...

On the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia, the landscape is marked by massive craters that look as though ...

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 ...

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

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

A video titled 'The Roswell Incident; was quietly uploaded to the National Archives, reigniting interest in the infamous 1947 crash.

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

Research led by NASA suggests a habitable past on Mars based on the discovery of minerals in Martian rocks associated with ...

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Here's what we know.

The Rosalind Franklin mission's chance of finding evidence of past life on Mars has been boosted by two studies that show ...

Geologists in North Carolina’s Sandhills have uncovered direct evidence of a late Eocene meteorite impact and tsunami, linked to the Chesapeake Bay impact structure. Led by G. Robert Ganis, this ...

Geologists found traces of an extraterrestrial impact from the Eocene epoch and a subsequent tsunami in the Paint Hill area ...