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

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

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

Did a massive meteorite that struck Earth over three billion years ago give microscopic life the spark it needed to thrive? A ...

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

The S2 meterorite, which hit the planet just over 3 billion years ago, dwarfed the one that caused the dinosaurs' extinction, ...

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

Recently, scientists ventured to the impact crater in South Africa's Barberton Greenstone belt, created by the meteorite, to ...

Along with bringing resources to a planet, meteors could also help shape environments to be more habitable.

When a meteorite with the mass of four Mount Everests hit Earth 3.2 billion years ago, it caused global chaos and provided an ...

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

A giant meteorite that struck Earth 3.26 billion years ago may have functioned as a 'fertilizer bomb,' aiding early life ...