Earth has a flair for dramatic resets, though it usually takes millions of years to deliver them. Over its long history, life has been knocked back by volcanic eruptions, climate swings, changing seas ...

(Dawid Adam Iurino/PaleoFactory/Sapienza University of Rome) For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, ...

It struck the seas off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula with the force of billions of atomic bombs, carving out the 112-mile-wide Chicxulub crater. The asteroid vaporized almost instantly.

He said that the situation worked like a thermos designed to both keep liquids hot or cold for hours. After the infernos ...

Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid impact wiped out three-quarters of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably ...

Earth seen from the Moon during the Artemis II mission. (NASA) Mass extinctions. Giant volcanic eruptions. Oceans suddenly deprived of oxygen. At first glance, Earth's biggest geological disasters ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a roughly 10-kilometre-wide asteroid slammed into what is now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, ...

Purdue planetary scientists Brandon Johnson and Alexandria Johnson discovered that the Chicxulub impact created a global dust ...

A 113-million-year-old marine murder mystery may finally be solved. Using chemical clues locked inside microscopic fossils, ...

Based on computer simulations and geologic evidence, scientists propose that the deadly event may have caused global ...

After the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, trillions of tonnes of rock vapour was launched into space before falling ...