“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

New NASA research suggests that Saturn’s moon Titan could naturally produce bubble-like compartments known as ...

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

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river ...

For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

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

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 ...

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

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