A recent study from researchers at the University of Toulouse has revealed a fascinating insight into the origins of life on ...

The very first cells obtained their energy from geochemical reactions. LMU researchers have now managed to recreate this ...

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

Understanding early life on Earth has been frequently stalled by an imprecise geological clock. Scientists have relied on broad stratigraphic patterns to trace the early Ediacaran Period (635 to ...

The study potentially upends our understanding of early Earth, but the discovery of hydrogen in the meteorite doesn’t mean that life would have necessarily evolved sooner, Barrett said.

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s ...

A meteorite impact in Scotland happened 990 million years ago, not 1.2 billion as previously thought, possibly influencing ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep ...

Scientists say a massive meteorite struck north-west Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought - and may have influenced early life on Earth. The meteorite, which created a layer of ...

In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben Tutolo, a University of Calgary associate professor of Earth, Energy, and ...