{"id":222077,"date":"2025-09-18T03:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/life-after-impact-new-discovery-links-microbial-colonization-to-ancient-meteorite-crater"},"modified":"2025-09-18T03:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:40:18","slug":"life-after-impact-new-discovery-links-microbial-colonization-to-ancient-meteorite-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/life-after-impact-new-discovery-links-microbial-colonization-to-ancient-meteorite-crater","title":{"rendered":"Life after impact: New discovery links microbial colonization to ancient meteorite crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-after-impact-new-discovery-links-microbial-colonization-to-ancient-meteorite-crater.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of microbial life within a meteorite impact crater\u2014revealing that life not only survives catastrophe, but thrives in its aftermath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a scientific breakthrough with cosmic implications, researchers have, for the first time, precisely dated the emergence of microbial life within a meteorite impact crater\u2014revealing that life not only survives catastrophe, but thrives in its aftermath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}