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

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

The paper shows how Earth's earliest life forms—microbes such as O 2-producing bacteria and methane-producing archaea—shaped, and were shaped by, changes in the oceans, continents, and atmosphere.

The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

Subsequent studies continue to debate the belt's exact age. Some researchers have also suggested the belt contains evidence of Earth's earliest life — traces of bacteria dating to between 4.3 billion ...

Montana Tech researchers have a new scientific article out, detailing how samples taken from hot springs at Yellowstone ...

Water is the essence of life. Every living thing on Earth contains water within it. The Earth is rich with life because it is ...

multicelled life-forms almost four billion years later. What Was Happening on Earth at This Time The Precambrian is the earliest of the geologic ages, which are marked by different layers of ...

The earliest humans emerged about 300,000 years ago. While many of Earth’s earliest life forms have long since gone extinct, some animals have stood the test of time–surviving through mass ...