Much concern, tracking, and funding of research on meteors and asteroids is focused mainly on the destruction and danger to life on earth, but what about their contributions to life?

Fascinating research and discoveries ongoing at Chixilub crater! Barringer Crater’s science advisor, Dr David Kring, leads and has continued research of the cores taken at Chixilub.

This new study shows that the vast hydrothermal system under this crater hosts a microbial nursery, and provides evidence supporting the Impact origin of life hypothesis.