The object bypassed impact monitoring systems. Last month, the Earth's atmosphere was bombarded by a small, boulder-sized asteroid just hours after it had first been detected, having evaded early ...
At least, that’s what some scientists believe. However, that lifeless husk may have found a healthy kickstart when a massive meteorite four times the size of Mount Everest struck the planet ...
Peter Schulte of the University of Erlangen and Nuremberg said evidence turned up by scientists in recent years indicated the impact on what is now the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico was the cause.
Meteorite strikes this big are rare, but still happen about once every five years. In 2008, for instance, a big meteor exploded over Sudan. No one was hurt. The largest meteorite strike in ...
A meteorite four times the size of Mount Everest may have helped life to thrive after it smashed into Earth, research suggests. The S2 meteorite crashed into our planet around 3.26 billion years ...