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

Satellites have captured amazing views views of these craters on Earth. ESA explains. Nördlinger Ries, Ouarkziz Crater, ...

Scientists have found the oldest impact crater on Earth – and it changes our understanding of our planet and the origins of life. The meteorite that left the crater fell to Earth 3.5 billion years ago ...

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

Forty-three million years ago, a 160-meter-diameter asteroid hit the area now occupied by the North Sea, releasing a 30-story ...

Research indicates that pyrite began to form 5 million years after the impact, suggesting that the hydrothermal system had ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Geologists have now unearthed evidence of a 3.5 billion-year-old crater found in a layer of Australian ...

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

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

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 ...

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