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

F or more than two decades, the Silverpit crater, a strange circular depression hidden under the North Sea, has baffled scientists. They wondered whether it was the scar of a massive asteroid strike ...

Discover the list of the top 9 largest impact craters on Earth, including the Vredefort Dome, Chicxulub crater, and other ...

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

Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...

2024 YR4 shows a 4% chance of hitting the Moon on December 22, 2032, with no risk to Earth. James Webb Space Telescope data ...

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

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown asteroid impact, but the crater is still at large. The clues of this ...

In September 2025, an X post viewed over 1 million times claimed the world's biggest meteorite impact crater was in Mexico and included a video of the purported site. The video an ...

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

Researchers at Oxford and Aberdeen universities think the time is right for a full geophysical survey of The Minch, to see if the Scottish strait is hiding an ancient meteorite crater, reports The BBC ...