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

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

A new study predicts Earth's oxygen will vanish in a billion years. Toho University researchers used NASA models for this ...

While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

Scientists from NASA and Toho University in Japan predict that Earth will become uninhabitable in about a billion years. The ...

Earth's magnetic field was so weak it almost disappeared. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, complex life emerged.

Scientists from NASA and Toho University in Japan predict that Earth will become uninhabitable in about a billion years. The ...

"We suggest that the processes which formed the lunar maria several billion years ago are still present and active today." ...

Life on Earth probably began in warm, underwater 'chemical gardens', rich in hydrogen and iron. Researchers from Germany have ...

Kurian calculates that all eukaryotic life — organisms with complex cells — has performed approximately 10 60 logical ...

Some of the earliest members of the group were the radiodonts, whose members include famous species like Anomalocaris. While ...