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

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have encouraged early life forms to assemble into colonies, according to a new ...

dating from the very dawn of complex life on earth more than 500 million years ago. Their very names—Hallucigenia, Anomalocaris—testify to their strangeness. For decades they have fired the ...

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

As per The Conversation, the sun will get brighter as it ages, which might turn our waters purple. Evidently, however, the ...

A common mineral, α-alumina, found abundantly in Earth's crust, may have played a critical role in initiating the chemical ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial life.

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been ... Most of the available information suggests that early Earth didn't have a huge supply of these complex molecules, if any at all, but it ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans ... Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning ...