International team of researchers discovered and successfully dated, for the first time ever, the birth of microorganisms in a meteorite crater.

An international team of researchers, including Western's Gordon Osinski, discovered and successfully dated - for the first time ever - the birth of ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

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 ...

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

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, experiments show.

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 ...