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 ...

In the rock layers, the researchers could see spherules, which are tiny, glass-like orbs that form when silica-containing rock melts due to a meteorite impact. They also observed conglomerates ...

But one of the rarest and most vital elements for life—phosphorus—was delivered in great supply by the impact. The meteorite that caused the S2 impact was between 37 and 58 kilometers wide.

From a small bag, Henoun took out a magnifying glass and a magnetic strip ... them confirmed by scientists and recorded in the Canada-based Earth Impact Database. Robert Ward, a meteorite collector in ...

The pieces of a meteorite that fell in Costa Rica in 2019 ... having been altered by liquid water on its parent body before an impact smashed apart that parent body and sent the Murchison and ...