Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

which indicated Earth was pummelled by space rocks between 4 billion and 3.8 billion years ago – an event called the Late Heavy Bombardment. The implication was that the origin of life as we ...

Long after the planets of the Solar System formed, catastrophic collisions continued, with a climax about 4 billion years ago during an interval called the Late Heavy Bombardment. The scars of ...

For decades, scientists believed that life on Earth took at least a billion ... a period of intense asteroid impacts called the Late Heavy Bombardment—delayed the emergence of life.

It’s possible that comets brought their rich range of organic material to Earth during a period of heavy collisions called the ‘Late Heavy Bombardment’. In the lab, artificial ‘comets ...

Earth itself formed only a billion years ... which overlapped with the end of the Late Heavy Bombardment. It is thought, that during this epoch, a disruption in planetary orbits threw asteroids ...