In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...

Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earthr. More specifically, where did ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Our new research, published today in Science, also reveals some bacteria developed the ability to use oxygen long before the ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Research results showed Earth’s earliest crust – known as the protocrust – that formed during the Hadean eon, would have a ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a ...

Electrical energy may also have sparked the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, though with a bit less scenery-chewing than that classic film scene. But where did that organic ...