A team of international researchers has uncovered new evidence that the Chicxulub meteorite impact, ...

Meteorite that wiped out dinosaurs helped create underground life haven for eight million years - Scientists made the finding ...

Scientists say the high heat created by the collision, could have helped life on the planet for around eight million years.

Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision ...

Hydrothermal vents are among the strangest ecosystems on Earth: eerie places where the planet’s deep heat and chemicals ...

Darkness, not cold or acidification, was the main driver of marine extinctions after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

When a 10-kilometer asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, the planet was plunged into darkness—and about 75% of species vanished, including marine life. Now, a new study reveals that the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a giant meteor slammed into Earth off the coast of modern-day Mexico. Firestorms incinerated the landscape for miles around. Even creatures thousands of miles away were ...

New life may have evolved surprisingly fast after a famous mass extinction event about 66 million years ago. University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences / John Maisano Some 66 million ...