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 ...