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 southern North Sea, off the coast of Yorkshire, around 40 million years ago, tr ...

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.

NASA’s DART mission changed the Dimorphos' asteroid orbit around the Sun, proving spacecraft impacts could help defend Earth.

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

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 ...

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

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in ...

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.