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

Scientists found rare glass fragments in Australia. These ananguites reveal a massive ancient asteroid impact. The collision ...

Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.

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

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s easy to imagine such a collision as purely destructive, new research ...

The debate on the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea was resolved with the confirmation of an ancient ...

— -- Asteroids that strike Earth have cosmic origins, but clues to the size of ancient impactors now have come from a decidedly Earth-bound source: the chemistry of ancient seawater. Asteroids ...

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 ...

A meteorite impact thousands of years ago may have triggered a landslide in the Grand Canyon and reshaped the Colorado River that runs through the national park. Geologists studying driftwood and lake ...

Scientists discover 11-million-year-old space glass fragments in Australia proving previously unknown ancient asteroid impact ...

Curtin 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.

Researchers suggest the impact that created Arizona's Meteor Crater may have triggered a massive landslide in the Grand Canyon around 56,000 years ago. © Kring 2017 ...