Silverpit crater, 80 miles off Yorkshire, was formed 43 million years ago by an asteroid impact, says Scientists, ending decades of debate over its origin beneath the North Sea.

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 ...

Scientists have found proof that a huge asteroid smashed into the sea off the coast of Yorkshire 43 million years ago.

A new study has revealed that life not only survives catastrophic meteorite impacts but can actually thrive in the craters ...

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

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

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept. 18) to see live views from the organization's robotic telescopes located ...

Throughout the planet, there are only a handful of known tektite strewn fields, which are large swaths of land where natural ...

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