The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that ...

Roughly 3.26 billion years ago, Earth had a “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” moment. A monster meteor dubbed ...

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

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

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

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.

Experts suggest the conditions caused by the impact of the S2 meteorite 3.26 billion years ago may have caused certain life ...

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

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

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