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

Research indicates that pyrite began to form 5 million years after the impact, suggesting that the hydrothermal system had ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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.

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...