How life may have outlasted early blasts

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 16:07 in Astronomy & Space

An asteroid bombardment of Earth nearly 4 billion years ago may have actually been a boon to early life on the planet, instead of wiping it out or preventing it from originating, a new study suggests.

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