Life might have originated on Earth after a massive meteorite strike billions of years ago, says a new study. This space rock ...

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

When a meteorite with the mass of four Mount Everests hit Earth 3.2 billion years ago, it caused global chaos and provided an ...

One of the key components for the evolution of life as we know it is the presence of “volatiles”: elements and compounds that ...

KXAN Chief Meteorologist Nick Bannin: You just launched a brand new undergraduate major in Climate System Science at UT. What ...

Evidence from ancient rocks in South Africa's Barberton Greenstone Belt reveals that despite the initial devastation, life ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission is on its way to explore a moon of Jupiter that researchers believe may be one of the best ...

Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have ...

A recent study reveals that a 3.26-billion-year-old meteorite impact may have nurtured early life on Earth by enriching ...

The transition from water to land is one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth. Now, a team of ...

A new study has posited that certain regions could be better suited for life to grow on Mars than others due to certain ...

Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.