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

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 ...

Scientists have finally solved a years-long puzzle. New research reveals that a 160-metre wide asteroid smashed into the ...

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.

Scientists discover binary asteroids near Earth can trade rocks and dust through slow collisions, revealing clues about asteroid evolution.

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

Don't fret, the moon is safe from a potential "city killer" asteroid collision in half-a-dozen years, astronomers now say. Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. New observations show how it went.

The European Space Agency said it is investigating a fireball that streaked across the skies of Europe on the weekend before reportedly punching a football-sized hole in the roof of a German home.