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 ...

The threat of asteroid impacts on Earth is not fictional. To date, humans have discovered nearly 1.44 million small celestial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Curtin researchers have helped uncover evidence of a mysterious giant asteroid impact, hidden not in a crater but in tiny ...