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.

Asteroid impacts have changed Earth's landscape time and time again. Some impacts caused great change to occur, like the ...

This limestone is believed to have formed after the impact of a massive meteor approximately 66 million years ago, which ...

A terrifying simulation has revealed what would happen if the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit Earth now.

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

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

The Chicxulub asteroid strike is well-known for ... New Evidence of a Second Asteroid Impact A lesser-known crater, the Nadir, was discovered off the coast of West Africa, leading ...

Two massive asteroid impacts 35.65 million years ago left significant craters but caused no long-term climate changes, ...

The Princeton model shows (at left) that the structure of the Earth's surface at the time of the meteorite impact that caused the Chicxulub crater in Mexico would have placed the Deccan Traps in ...

the Chicxulub crater and geologic time, ore deposits of Mexico. Lecture three hours; laboratory three hours. *Click on the first column in each table row to see class details. Examination of earth ...