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

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

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

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

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

In the orange layers, the rock dried out too quickly for the microscopic algae — also known as cyanobacteria, the earliest ...

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

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

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

With the Jurassic World Rebirth upon us, for better or worse, let's run down some of our favorite dinosaur movies that aren't ...