Ancient meteorite was 'giant fertiliser bomb' for life on Earth
The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life forms. But that was far from the largest meteorite to strike our planet.
Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.
A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then ...
A meteorite 200 times larger than the one that killed the dinosaurs once hit Earth. Surprisingly, it may have helped kick ...
Some 3.26 billion years ago a giant rock between 50 and 200 times the size of the Chicxulub dino-killer smacked into our ...
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