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

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

A remarkable scientific breakthrough has resolved a long-standing debate about the origin of the Silverpit crater, located deep below the North Sea, off the coast of Yorkshire. After years of ...

Earth's core cannot be made just of iron — it also appears to contain carbon. And our research suggests it may contain a bit of oxygen and possibly silicon as well.

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

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

After a catastrophic asteroid impact 78 million years ago, life didn't just survive—it thrived, at least according to new ...

Stargazers can tune in to the Virtual Telescope Project's YouTube stream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 (3:00 GMT Sept.

Throughout the planet, there are only a handful of known tektite strewn fields, which are large swaths of land where natural ...

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