A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New evidence confirms that it was caused by an asteroid or comet impact about ...

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, ...

Dawn didn’t just observe Vesta’s giant craters - it mapped the asteroid’s interior and detected signs of a once-active molten ...

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 ...

On the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia, the landscape is marked by massive craters that look as though ...

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

A lookout point in the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high mountain, allowed the rover to see all the way across Gale ...

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