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

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 ...

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

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq ...

Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on ...