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 ...

Giant viruses, like the ones found in Yellowstone's hot springs, have been turning up in many odd corners of the planet.

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 ...

While much remains unknown, it is intriguing that two ancient meteorite impacts, the 3.5-billion-year-old North Pole impact in Western Australia and now the 1-billion-year-old Stac Fada deposit in ...

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

They are very tiny, but they are a key source of information when it comes to Earth's evolutionary history: pollen grains are ...

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

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

Earth's atmosphere will then resemble its early state, rich in methane. Complex life will struggle to survive. Scientists Just Predicted the Date Life on Earth Will Vanish Forever A groundbreaking ...