Early life on Earth may have gotten an unexpected kickstart thanks to a massive meteor that struck the planet.

Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have ...

Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.

A massive meteorite that struck Earth over three billion years ago – dwarfing the one that wiped out the dinosaurs – may have ...

The mammoth S2 meteorite, discovered in 2014, is believed to have caused a tsunami larger than any other known in Earth’s ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

A huge meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans, ...

Meteorite impacts helped create Earth’s oceans and continents. They sparked life’s evolution through changes in the ...

A giant meteorite dubbed S2, which hit Earth around 3.26 billion years ago may have acted as a 'giant fertilizer bomb', ...

Massive impacts had a silver lining for life. Billions of years ago, long before life as we know it emerged, meteorites ...

A massive meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago could have helped boost early microbial life by releasing nutrients into ...

A giant meteorite first discovered in 2014 caused a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and may have sparked life, ...