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 ...

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

This is one of the original storyboards from the Late Heavy Bombardment sequence in The Two Sisters film. Shots very similar to 001, 002 and 004 were filmed and made it into the final film.

The prevailing idea was that the planet’s violent early history—especially a period of intense asteroid impacts called the Late Heavy Bombardment—delayed the emergence of life. However ...

These findings challenge prior assumptions that life could not survive the Late Heavy Bombardment, a period of intense asteroid impacts occurring between 3.7 and 3.9 billion years ago. To ...