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 ...

Life might have originated on Earth after a massive meteorite strike billions of years ago, says a new study. This space rock ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...