A massive crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a prehistoric asteroid impact, scientists have revealed. The Silverpit ...

Are we all descendants of these 'Mars colonists'? The literature from the past decade is even more interesting, with ...

Fleet Space Technologies, Australia’s leading space exploration company, has signed a memorandum of understanding with ExLabs ...

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

Lunar minerals generate the rust mineral hematite when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, simulations show.

The rock, discovered by NASA’s Perseverance rover, has colorful leopard-like spots, suggesting chemical reactions possibly caused by microbial organisms. “Layering, nodules, reaction fronts ...

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, ...

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

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