One of the films on that impressively long list is director Brad Bird's feature directorial debut "The Iron Giant." Now cited ...

When a meteorite with the mass of four Mount Everests hit Earth 3.2 billion years ago, it caused global chaos and provided an ...

But, as new research shows, that disaster actually may have been beneficial for the early evolution of life by serving as "a giant fertilizer bomb" for the bacteria and other single-celled ...

creating an environment ideal for many types of microbes because iron provides them with an energy source. “Imagine these impacts to be giant fertilizer bombs,” Drabon said. “We think of meteorite ...

It would have been a curious sight, as the oceans were probably green in color from iron-rich deep waters ... It is estimated that “giant impactors,” greater than 6.2 miles (10 kilometers ...

It would have been a curious sight, as the oceans were probably green in color from iron-rich deep waters ... It is estimated that “giant impactors,” greater than 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) across, ...