About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

Experts have unveiled the most detailed images yet of the universe’s infancy, capturing light that traveled for more than 13 billion years.

"Given how rare such evidence is due to [Earth's] geological recycling processes, this is a major breakthrough in understanding early Earth." Geologists have discovered the world's oldest known ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

Nonetheless, there is agreement that these early continents were critical for many chemical and biological processes on Earth. Although these two scenarios are very different, both are driven by ...

Since simulations of Earth's mantle focus mostly on present-day solid-state conditions, Boukaré had to develop a novel model to explore the early days of Earth when the mantle was much hotter and ...