The meteor that made that made the dinosaurs go extinct could have made a tsunami much bigger, and much more devastating, ...

Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass ...

A long-running dispute about the origin of a North Sea crater has finally been settled, as new research finds a massive asteroid hit the water and triggered a towering tsunami millions of years ago.

Around 35 million years ago, a small asteroid traveling at 40,000 miles per hour (64,373 kilometers per hour) struck Earth, crashing into the Atlantic Ocean near the modern-day town of Cape Charles, ...

In the early days of earth, it was dangerous, hostile place to be. Luckily, by the time humans came around, things settled down a bit. But in the millions of years before mankind evolved, the earth ...

A decades-long fight over what carved a vast crater deep beneath the North Sea seabed has ended. Microscopic “shocked” crystals, forged only under the brutal pressures of an asteroid strike, have ...