Scientists discovered a previously hidden ecosystem - lagoons in Argentina's Puna de Atacama harbors microbial communities, known as stromatolites, that could be good examples of the earlier form of ...

How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the ...

When scientists talk about Earth’s history, they often mention huge numbers– billions of years, shifting continents, and ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

"The Krokodillen rocks formed before Jezero Crater was created, during Mars' earliest geologic period, the Noachian, and are ...

Life on Earth probably began in warm, underwater 'chemical gardens', rich in hydrogen and iron. Researchers from Germany have ...

Scientists have identified *Ikaria wariootia*, a tiny wormlike creature from 555 million years ago, as the earliest known ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

It appears that we live on the knife-edge, where only the narrowest combination of values for the fundamental constants allow ...

If you thought dinosaurs were the earliest land-walking, clawed creatures to leave their mark on Earth, we have (somewhat) ...