This created a huge crater called Chicxulub. The aftermath was something out of an apocalypse-themed action movie. The crash triggered massive tsunamis, and raging fires, while a dust cloud ...

When colossal asteroids rock Earth, it's not all doom and gloom. The menacing asteroid that wiped out non-avian dinosaurs left a colossal marine crater in what's now the Yucatan Peninsula.

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...

A meteorite impact site dating back 1.2 billion years has been identified in Scotland, rewriting what scientists know about ...

The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.

In a recent groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified evidence of a meteorite impact in north-west Scotland that ...