The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the ...

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

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

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

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

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

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

Permeability selection of biologically relevant membranes matches the stereochemistry of life on Earth. PLOS Biology , 2025; 23 (5): e3003155 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003155 Cite This Page : ...