Scientists have finally solved a years-long puzzle. New research reveals that a 160-metre wide asteroid smashed into the southern North Sea, off the coast of Yorkshire, around 40 million years ago, tr ...

Picture a space rock the size of a football pitch crashing into the North Sea's shallow seabed 43 to 46 million years ago.

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

After years of debate, researchers have determined that the Silverpit Crater in the North Sea was formed by an asteroid impact approximately 43 to 46 million years ago. This research provides valuable ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Asteroid hit North Sea: A long-standing scientific debate has finally been resolved: the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea was formed by a massive asteroid impact around 43–46 million years ago.

For a brief time, "Asteroid 2024 YR4" was considered to be the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years.

Scientists say 'moon is safe' as concerns of asteroid strike dismissed - Scientists give their verdict amid fears of an asteroid hitting the lunar surface ...

Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck stopped a Texas-sized asteroid from crashing into the Earth in the 1998 science-fiction movie “Armageddon.” But a NASA expert said recently the greatest concern isn’t the ...

In the long shadow of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, life appears to have bounced back with surprising speed. A new analysis of sedimentation rates suggests that the first wave of marine ...