Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

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

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...

New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...

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

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

"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 ...

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 ...

said the discovery shed new light on how meteorites shaped Earth's early environment. "Uncovering this impact and finding more from the same time period could explain a lot about how life may have ...