Australian microbe research is helping improve our understanding of the potential for life in extreme environments, offering ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Key pointsMicrobialites are rock-like structures among the earliest signs of life on Earth. New research improves understanding of how early life may ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Key points Microbialites are rock-like structures among the earliest signs of life on Earth. New research improves understanding of how early life may ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

We are part of a research team that has confirmed the oldest known rocks on Earth are located in northern Québec.__ ...

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...

A groundbreaking Australian-led study is shedding new light on the origins of life by analyzing ancient microbialite ...