Fossilized remnants of ancient carbon from the heart of South Africa's Mpumalanga province have just yielded the earliest ...

Deep in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, traces of ancient life still linger, even when every cell has crumbled. You would not ...

A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years ...

Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s ...

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

AI-powered chemical analysis uncovered faint biological fingerprints in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, pushing back the origins of oxygen-producing life.

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

Using AI and advanced chemistry, scientists uncovered 3.3-billion-year-old chemical traces that mark the earliest evidence of ...

Scientists uncover new evidence of early life on Earth using advanced molecular analysis and machine learning.

A recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of the biggest mysteries in science: how life first began ...

On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species and transformed our understanding of life on Earth by ...