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A team of international researchers has discovered that the vast majority of the asteroids that collide with Earth come from just three families of asteroids, which can all be traced back to a ...

The meteorite, designated S2, is about 200 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing impactor named Chicxulub. S2 hit Earth when only simple, single-celled life existed on our planet — and the ...

A monster meteor dubbed “S2”—roughly the size of four Mount Everests and up to 200 times larger than the rock that decimated the dinosaurs—crashed into our planet. Now, however ...

Researchers have found that the vast majority of meteorites that plummet through the Earth's atmosphere come from only three different asteroid families, which are groups of space rocks that ...

But Harvard researchers found that something much more unlikely happened when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet. Instead of ending life, the space rock may have allowed it to ...

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: Most significant change to Tesla ...

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The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life forms, but that was far from the ...

Researchers have found that the vast majority of meteorites that plummet through the Earth's atmosphere come from only three different asteroid families, which are groups of space rocks that resulted ...

Earth was a much different place during the Paleoarchean Era when this occurred, and meteorite impacts were larger and more frequent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The space rock that slammed into Earth ...

But that was far from the largest meteorite to strike our planet. One up to 200 times bigger landed 3.26 billion years ago, triggering worldwide destruction at an even greater scale. But ...