It was four times the size of Mount Everest, unleashed a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans — but an ancient meteor may also have nurtured life on Earth after ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at ... the early evolution of life by serving as "a giant fertilizer bomb" for the bacteria and other ...

Early in Earth’s history, space rocks frequently hit the young planet. It is estimated that “giant impactors,” greater than 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) across, pummeled the planet at least ...

The new findings, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, suggest that this massive collision not only brought destruction to Earth, but also ...

“We know that giant meteorite impacts were frequent during Earth’s infancy and that they must have affected the evolution of early life, but we didn’t have a good understanding of how ...

WASHINGTON — A space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the ... for the early evolution of life by serving as "a giant fertilizer bomb" for the bacteria and other single ...