Scientists have finally solved a decades-long mystery about a strange crater deep under the North Sea. The Silverpit Crater, first discovered in 2002, has now been confirmed as the result of a massive ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon in 2032, to cut the risk of the collision debris destroying satellites.

More such craters could be hiding in plain sight as they can quickly fill up with water and dirt, researchers say ...

Wearing the 'Wangyu' spacesuit, I slowly set foot on the surface of the far side of the Moon. This 'Wangyu' spacesuit is ...

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, ...

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

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

Evidence mounting that 13,000 years ago, a comet exploded over the Earth with devastating consequences. Now there is strong ...

When most of us think about what shaped our planet, we probably picture volcanoes, earthquakes, and huge continents slowly ...