Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, Earth was seemingly quite a boring place. Continents moved little, and life ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has ...

Scientists have discovered a meteorite older than Earth, offering the earliest clues to how the Solar System formed and how ...

A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years ...

Scientists continue to explore the deep story of how Earth and the moon formed. One idea has gained attention because it ...

Scientists have developed a new way to hunt for hidden signals of past life, and say it could assist in the search for ...

Scientists have uncovered the earliest chemical evidence of life on Earth in a discovery that could revolutionise our ...

Scientists examine the mummified remains of a 39,000-year-old mammoth nicknamed Yuka, whose tissue yielded ancient RNA in a ...

Scientists have made a perplexing discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet that challenges our understanding of the region’s ...