Musk said in an interview this week with Fox News host Jesse Watters that his focus on Mars has to do with ensuring ...

Jackson Njau's fascination with human origins started as a curious teen growing up a few hours from one of the most famous ...

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

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 ...

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

NASA scientists and researchers from the University of Tokyo have used supercomputers to find out exactly when life on Earth ...

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 ...