{"id":238791,"date":"2026-06-12T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-surprising-way-asteroids-may-have-helped-life-begin-on-earth"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T08:19:12","slug":"the-surprising-way-asteroids-may-have-helped-life-begin-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/the-surprising-way-asteroids-may-have-helped-life-begin-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"The Surprising Way Asteroids May Have Helped Life Begin on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-surprising-way-asteroids-may-have-helped-life-begin-on-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth\u2019s surface.<\/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-238791","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\/238791","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=238791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}