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

Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and leaving a 1.9 mile (3km) wide crater under the seabed. The Silverpit Crater is ...

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New ...

Around 66 million years ago, a 12-kilometre-wide asteroid travelling at 43,000 km/h crashed into Earth, triggering one of the ...

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

Two decades after Silverpit was discovered, Nicholson and colleagues revisited the controversy almost by chance. In 2022, ...

For the last 20 years geologists have debated what caused the hole in the earth which is under the North Sea, off the East ...

Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater in the North Sea was formed by an asteroid impact over 40 million years ago, ending two decades of debate.

North Carolina experienced massive tsunami during late Eocene due to extraterrestrial impact: Researchers say Analysis of ...

Decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved.