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 meteorite, S2, was discovered in 2014. It hit the planet about 3.26 billion years ago and is estimated to have been up to 200 times larger than the space rock that later killed the dinosaurs.

Billions of years ago, meteorites hit Earth frequently. This particular space rock, called the S2 meteorite, collided with the planet around 3.26 billion-years-ago, and after that certain life ...

The meteorite S2 was much larger than the space rock we are most familiar with. The one that led to the dinosaurs’ extinction 66 million years ago was about 10km wide, or almost the height of ...