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The Crucible of Life: How Asteroid Bombardment Forged Earth’s First Habitable Environments

By Evan Lee Salim

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July 3, 2026

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For decades, the popular imagination has painted the early Earth as a chaotic, hellish landscape—a place defined exclusively by destruction. We often view the Late Heavy Bombardment, an epoch of intense asteroid activity 4 billion years ago, as a series…