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

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

More information: Timothy W. Lyons et al, Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life, Nature Reviews Microbiology (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41579-024-01044-y Provided by University ...

The study of early Earth microbial life and organic matter is crucial for understanding the origins of life on our planet and potentially on other celestial bodies. Recent research has focused on ...

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

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

The Earth is rich with life because it is rich with water ... So, while water was rare in the early universe, it is ...

The fossils of the Burgess Shale offer a glimpse at the incredible diversity of early life on Earth, frozen in time and locked in stone — you just have to go digging to see it. Working at 2,500 ...

But as far as we can tell, only life on Earth survives today; the reason, according to the Bottleneck Hypothesis, is that early life on Earth evolved rapidly, releasing large amounts of gases like ...

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

Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

It records a critical milestone in Earth's history, when the atmosphere was changing rapidly and atmospheric oxygen was increasing - a key indication that primitive life on Earth was blooming ...