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

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

Rock layers deposited before and after the major dinosaur extinction event 65 million years ago are surprisingly different.

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 ...

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

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

This deep-dive explores the Chicxulub impact crater and what’s left of the dinosaur-killer asteroid today. Supreme Court issues major announcement Jennifer Aniston Reacts to Learning Reese Witherspoon ...

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs ...

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

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 ...

Paleontologists say that the extinction of the dinosaurs may have led to the proliferation of rivers and dense forests, ...

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 ...