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.

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

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

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

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

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

This is the feature that is now buried under sediments in the Gulf of Mexico, close to the port of Chicxulub. The impact description - scientists call it the dynamic collapse model of crater ...

The data even tells us from which part of the solar system it hailed before crashing to Earth, and it turns out the Chicxulub impactor was not from around these parts. Scientists discovered the ...

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

Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. Now scientists have found extraordinary evidence which documents the colossal asteroid impact event. It was widely ...