{"id":238681,"date":"2026-06-10T02:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/dino-killing-asteroid-may-have-fueled-underground-life-for-8-million-years"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:26:29","slug":"dino-killing-asteroid-may-have-fueled-underground-life-for-8-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/dino-killing-asteroid-may-have-fueled-underground-life-for-8-million-years","title":{"rendered":"Dino-killing asteroid may have fueled underground life for 8 million years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dino-killing-asteroid-may-have-fueled-underground-life-for-8-million-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new life, and new research suggests it lasted for millions of years longer than previously suspected.<\/p>\n<p>The finding has surprised the international team of researchers behind it, who came to their conclusions by pairing sophisticated new analysis of samples taken from the Chicxulub crater in Mexico with computer modeling of the geological effects of the asteroid impact that formed the crater 66 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The research, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43247-026-03618-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Communications Earth &amp; Environment<\/i>, casts new light on how life may have first been incubated in hydrothermal systems in the earliest chapters of Earth\u2019s history and could help direct the search for life on other planets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also created an underground environment suited to supporting new life, and new research suggests it lasted for millions of years longer than previously suspected. The finding has surprised the international team of researchers behind it, who came to their conclusions by pairing sophisticated new analysis of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,1523,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-computing","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238681","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=238681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}