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

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.

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 ...

Since geologists first identified the formation in 2002, the three-km-wide crater and its surrounding ring of circular faults spanning about 20km have sparked intense debate. But researchers say their ...