A new study provides compelling evidence that the Chicxulub meteorite impact, rather than massive volcanic activity, was the ...

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the ...

What killed off the dinosaurs – was it the Chicxulub meteorite or did the effects of massive volcanism also play a role?

The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

XA1, struck Earth on Dec. 3, 2024, burning up over Siberia. It's the 11th detected before impact. No damage was reported.

UK scientists used hundreds of tiny fossils that lived in the sea at the time to understand climate shifts tens of millions ...

"Modeling studies of the larger Chicxulub impact, which killed off the dinosaurs, also suggest a shift in climate on a much ...

Learn how asteroid strikes may have only altered Earth's climate for about 25 years.

For years, Earth scientists have debated whether the intense volcanic activity in India, which occurred both before and after ...

Even before the devastating asteroid named "Chicxulub" after its impact site off the coast of Mexico, dinosaurs and co. lived ...

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted.