Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...

Scientists have finally confirmed that a mysterious crater half a mile beneath the North Sea was carved out by a massive asteroid strike more than 43 million years ago—ending decades of debate over ...

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

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

F or more than two decades, the Silverpit crater, a strange circular depression hidden under the North Sea, has baffled ...

In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of ...

For the last 20 years geologists have debated what caused the hole in the earth which is under the North Sea, off the East ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread. Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business. Case ...

78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 m deep ...

Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and ...

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

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