Billions of years ago, oxygen-producing microbial life flourished in an impact-generated crater filled with warm water.

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

"This is the first comprehensive evidence suggesting that stromatolites could form in hydrothermal lakes created by asteroid impacts." ...

Scientists studying South Korea’s only confirmed impact crater have discovered microbial structures beneath the ...

Asteroid impacts may have helped make Earth habitable. (Discovery Access/Getty Images) Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble ...

What studying the surface of the Moon revealed about Earth’s apocalyptic youth. Four and a half billion years ago, Earth was battered by relentless asteroid impacts powerful enough to vaporize oceans ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

A long-running dispute about the origin of a North Sea crater has finally been settled, as new research finds a massive asteroid hit the water and triggered a towering tsunami millions of years ago.

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo missions—and they’re shaking up the search for life beyond Earth. The OSIRIS-REx ...