That's because these biographers of the primordial deal in increments of millions and even billions of years as they struggle to reconstruct our planet's life ... back to Earth's beginnings ...

A recent groundbreaking NASA study has revealed a significant discovery about the protein configurations that may give rise ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Cosmic dust may have delivered elements crucial for life to early Earth. Our planet is relatively poor in several elements that are necessary for the chemistry of life, but the dust that ...

This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged. The key to unlocking the secrets of distant planets starts right here on Earth.

Complex life on Earth may be older than previously thought. New findings suggest that conditions for life existed 1.5 billion years earlier than it was originally considered to have begun.

Of all the puzzles about life itself, how it started here on earth and how it might have ... says Mojzsis. This is the beginning of life, he says. A rock from the Jack Hills in Western Australia ...

Scientists have uncovered a tantalising clue to the origins of life on Earth, finding complex organic molecules in a distant interstellar cloud. A team of researchers led by MIT has detected ...