"If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, it will (statistically speaking) be the largest impact in approximately 5,000 years," ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

Americans will use anything but the metric system. So let's put that to its most logical conclusion and measure asteroids ...

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

The event in question is the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the “Great Dying,” which occurred around 252 ...

The trigger for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event was the eruption of massive amounts of molten rock in modern day ...

And now, in a triumph of cross-border collaboration, an international team, armed with a rich Chinese fossil record and ...

The catastrophic event, which occurred 252 million years ago, wiped out nearly 90 per cent of all life on Earth, both on land and in the oceans.

Ever since the world was formed more than four billion years ago, it has seen a number of mass extinctions that have almost ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

The event has been attributed to intense global warming triggered by a period of volcanic activity in Siberia, known as the ...