Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea was formed by an influence of asteroid over 43 million years ago, confirmed by scientists. This is addressing a decades-long geological debate. Since its ...

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

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

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, ...

India’s only saltwater lake formed by a meteorite. Explore its cosmic origins, myths, temples, wildlife, and travel tips.

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

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

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...

Scientists thought that an Australian museum’s collection of tektites came from an 800,000-year-old asteroid strike on Earth. Some of them turned out to be much older.

An asteroid the size of two football fields end-to-end is to have a relatively close encounter with Earth on Thursday, Sept. 18.

Curiosity Point 1: A catastrophic event turned Venus into a hellish world?

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