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It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

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He explained that impact craters ‘created environments friendly to microbial life’ because of features like hot water pools.

The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.