The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests. A study of the remnants of a 3.26 billion-year-old impact reveals that ...

GSI’s meteorite repository opens in Kolkata Features 643 meteorites, including Martian Shergotty New Kopargaon addition from Maharashtra The Geological Survey of India (GSI) has unveiled a new ...

In a study published last Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe a meteorite called S2 as being four times the size of Mount Everest—that makes it as ...

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Earth’s timeline continues to captivate humanity with ancient wonders and mysteries. Around 3.26 billion years ago, one period packed with celestial events saw the planet bombarded by meteorites. The ...

A graphic showing how the S2 meteorite impact allowed iron-cycling microbes to thrive in the seas. Credit: PNAS Earth scientists will continue sleuthing out Earth's distant — and at times ...

A team of international researchers has discovered that the vast majority of the asteroids that collide with Earth come from just three families of asteroids, which can all be traced back to a ...

The meteorite, designated S2, is about 200 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing impactor named Chicxulub. S2 hit Earth when only simple, single-celled life existed on our planet — and the ...

An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right). Credit: Rayssa Martins/Ross Findlay Zinc in ...

Above these sheets were thick layers of spherules—solidified droplets of molten rock that form after meteorite impacts—which rained down in the wake of several impact events at the time.

During 2014, the meteorite was discovered. The planet was hit around 3.26 bilion years ago and it is estimated to be 200 times larger than the space rock that time after ended with the dinosaurs. New ...