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.

A vast meteor striking Earth might have brought about whole new kinds of life, scientists say - Oceans would have boiled away ...

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 ...

While a large asteroid could encounter Earth at any time, impacts were much more common in the so-called Archean Eon. Between ...

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

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.