Some 66 million years ago, a devastating asteroid strike is believed to have been behind the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy.

“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks of Earth were far wetter than we imagined. This forces us to rethink the ...

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

Scientists have finally solved a decades-long mystery about a strange crater deep under the North Sea. The Silverpit Crater, first discovered in 2002, has now been confirmed as the result of a massive ...

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or ...

“Curious people,” according to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, “had the right to exhibit a controlled disrespect ...

Need a refresher about 3I/ATLAS? Here's everything to know about the interstellar object, including when the latest observations will be made.

When the cosmos shoots pool, it plays for keeps. It sunk a six-mile-wide rock in our pocket of the solar system 66 million years ago. The smack of the asteroid against Earth released energy on the ...

The Bion-M No 2 satellite’s mission was to study the impact of space on these critters, but to also test the wild concept — a ...

In this artistic conception, an asteroid passes near the Earth. Asteroids routinely make flybys of our planet, many much closer than 1994 PC1. Contrary to popular belief, the Earth doesn't pull them ...