For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

A Geological Mystery Unraveled For decades, scientists have disagreed on the origin of the Silverpit crater. This massive, two-mile-wide structure lies 700 meters beneath the North Sea's surface. The ...

Billion of Asteroids: The "Living Fossils" of Solar System Formation and Evolution ...

Can a 3.2-kilometre-wide scar under the North Sea rewrite part of Britain’s geology? More than two decades of argument have ...

Around 66 million years ago, a 12-kilometre-wide asteroid travelling at 43,000 km/h crashed into Earth, triggering one of the ...

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 ...

But in this case the wrecking ball is a man-made, fundamentally unfair tax policy threaded into the 900–plus page One Big ...

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

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

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 ...

SYDNEY, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Researchers have helped uncover evidence of a mysterious giant asteroid impact, hidden not in a crater but in tiny pieces of glass found only in Australia.