Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After decades of debate, scientists confirm the Silverpit Crater in the North Sea was carved by an asteroid impact. (CREDIT: ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico Distinguished Professors Emeritus Karl Karlstrom and Laurie Crossey, along with ...

A new scientific study reveals that life recovered much faster than expected after the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

A team of international scientists will begin drilling inside the Mexican crater site where it’s believed that an asteroid impact 66 million years ago caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. The ...

Conceptualization of Nankoweap landslide that brought down large boulders of Kaibab Limestone from the cliffs at left and created a geologically short-lived paleolake in Grand Canyon. Geology is full ...

Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and leaving a 1.9 mile (3km) wide crater under the seabed. The Silverpit Crater is ...

Research Grand Canyon landslide-dam and paleolake triggered by the Meteor Crater impact at 56 ka by a team from the University of New Mexico describes a lake in the Grand Canyon created by a landslide ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...