Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed.

Of the heavy metals spewed by dying stars, the astronomers were particularly interested in iron-60. That’s because iron-60 is ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into ...

For the first 80% of life's history, the Earth was inhabited solely by these microbes. Nothing in biology makes sense except ...

On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and carbon-neutral concrete.

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

It will lead to more purple, brown, or green hues in coastal or stratified areas, with less deep blue color in water as ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's ... affect our entire life," he says "It's the same thing for planets. There are some aspects of the very early evolution of planets ...

A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...