In a new study, my colleagues and I analyzed lumps of glass found around a 5,000-year-old meteorite impact site in the Northern Territory and discovered it contains a surprisingly large amount of ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests. A study of the remnants of a 3.26 billion-year-old impact reveals that ...

But one of the rarest and most vital elements for life—phosphorus—was delivered in great supply by the impact. The meteorite that caused the S2 impact was between 37 and 58 kilometers wide.