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

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

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

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

Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled the planet.

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

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

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

Recent scientific findings suggest a massive meteorite that impacted Earth 3.26 billion years ago may have benefited early ...

"The oceans likely contained some life, but not as much as today in part due to a lack of nutrients. Some people even ...

The huge chunk of space rock is estimated to have been up to 200 times larger than the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs ...