A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New ...

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

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, ...

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