A decades-long fight over what carved a vast crater deep beneath the North Sea seabed has ended. Microscopic “shocked” crystals, forged only under the brutal pressures of an asteroid strike, have ...

A long-standing scientific debate over a mysterious crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. New research has confirmed that the Silverpit Crater was formed by a massive asteroid impact ...

An asteroid that struck Earth more than 43 million years ago likely generated a 100-metre tsunami, a group of scientists recently announced. The study may put an end to the debate surrounding the ...

A long-running dispute about the origin of a North Sea crater has finally been settled, as new research finds a massive asteroid hit the water and triggered a towering tsunami millions of years ago.

In the early days of earth, it was dangerous, hostile place to be. Luckily, by the time humans came around, things settled down a bit. But in the millions of years before mankind evolved, the earth ...

A recent study reveals an asteroid breaking apart near the Sun, with debris traveling through the inner solar system, ...

Since geologists first identified the formation in 2002, the three-km-wide crater and its surrounding ring of circular faults spanning about 20km have sparked intense debate. But researchers say their ...