The Silverpit crater mystery in the North Sea appears to have been solved. Scientists say it was formed by an asteroid 43 ...

Forty-three million years ago, a 160-meter-diameter asteroid hit the area now occupied by the North Sea, releasing a 30-story-high tsunami and digging a buried crater beneath 700 meters of sediment ...

Meteor impacts are one of the few natural disasters that can arrive without warning, crossing the final kilometers of atmosphere in seconds. When scientists talk about the likeliest place on Earth for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have just discovered a giant crater 900m in diameter in southern China. Named the Jinlin crater, a new study confirms ...

Somewhere in the Sahara Desert in 2011, a fragment of Mars was sitting on the sand, waiting. It had been there for roughly ...