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 ...

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.

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

However, the cooling period was brief. By approximately 20,000 years before the meteorite impact, temperatures had stabilized ...

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

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

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

A Chicxulub-sized asteroid hitting Earth today could obliterate continents, cause global tsunamis, and halve the population ...

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