NASA has warned that a smaller yet mighty asteroid is set to take a closer look towards our home planet on Christmas, here's ...

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.

The origin of mammals is shrouded in mystery, but every fossil clue helps rewrite the story. A new discovery on a ...

The Chicxulub meteorite impact, rather than volcanic activity, was the principal driver behind the extinction of the ...

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns ...

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

It's the last week before Christmas and not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse model bred to exhibit characteristics of ...

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns ...

A 10-story asteroid, 2024 XN1, traveling at 14,743 mph, will skim Earth on Dec 24. Though harmless, it highlights space ...

Asteroid impacts have changed Earth’s landscape time and time again. Some impacts caused great change to occur, like the Chicxulub Impactor, which led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs around 65 ...

An asteroid or comet struck near Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, forming the 110-mile (180-kilometer) wide Chicxulub crater. This event likely triggered an impact winter ...

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