The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that ...

Early life on Earth may have gotten an unexpected kickstart thanks to a massive meteor that struck the planet.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Germany, have discovered a conserved developmental pattern known as the ...

This meteorite, designated as S2, is roughly 200 times larger than the Chicxulub responsible for the dinosaurs’ extinction.

The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 ...

As a result, populations of unicellular organisms spiked. Drabon and her team plan to visit the area again to continuing ...

How does multicellularity evolve? Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and multicellular Volvox are beginning to find answers to this question.

Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.

A team of researchers including Department of Marine Sciences Professor Senjie Lin have for the first time sequenced the ...

Meteorite impacts helped create Earth’s oceans and continents. They sparked life’s evolution through changes in the ...

New geological research suggests that a gigantic asteroid impact over 3 billion years ago, despite creating extreme ...

The research involved an innovative study of a tiny unicellular ocean organism called foraminifera. These organisms, which ...