"Then all of a sudden, you have a giant tsunami sweeping by and ripping ... when S2 crashed down about 3.26 billion years ago. The meteorite was estimated to have been up to 200 times larger ...

A monster meteor dubbed “S2”—roughly the size ... can start to understand something about the global nature of these giant impact events,” Benjamin P. Weiss, an Earth and planetary ...

An asteroid named for the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and disorder may not pose a hazard to Earth, but that does not ...

The Earth has always been bombarded with rocks from space. It’s true to say though that there were more rocks flying around the Solar System during earlier periods of its history. A team of ...

The researchers studied layers in this rock and determined that a global tsunami was initiated by the S2 meteorite impact 3.26 billion years ago. (CNN) Auto news: Proposal to mandate driving ...

NASA is on high alert as a massive asteroid, named 99942 Apophis and dubbed the "God of Chaos," approaches Earth, with its ...

“Imagine these impacts to be giant fertilizer bombs,” Drabon said. “We think of meteorite impacts as being disastrous and detrimental to life – the best example being the Chicxulub impact ...