Are we all descendants of these 'Mars colonists'? The literature from the past decade is even more interesting, with ...

The rock, discovered by NASA’s Perseverance rover, has colorful leopard-like spots, suggesting chemical reactions possibly caused by microbial organisms. “Layering, nodules, reaction fronts ...

Scientists have, for the first time, pinned down exactly when microbes colonized a meteorite impact crater. The team shows ...

The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China M illennia ago a piece of the sky fell toward East Africa, ...

India’s only saltwater lake formed by a meteorite. Explore its cosmic origins, myths, temples, wildlife, and travel tips.

Scientists traced microbial life in Finland’s 78M-year-old Lappajärvi crater to just 4–5 million years after impact, using isotopic signatures of sulfate- and methane-cycling bacteria.

On the remote Yamal and Gydan peninsulas of western Siberia, the landscape is marked by massive craters that look as though ...

Research indicates that pyrite began to form 5 million years after the impact, suggesting that the hydrothermal system had ...

New research shows microbes colonized a Finnish impact crater 73.6 million years ago, lasting over 10 million years.

A new study has revealed that life not only survives catastrophic meteorite impacts but can actually thrive in the craters ...

After a catastrophic asteroid impact 78 million years ago, life didn't just survive—it thrived, at least according to new ...

78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 m deep ...