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

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

Scientists have unearthed peculiar million-year-old rock tunnels in Africa, which have left researchers puzzled and suggest ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Microscopic magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal "GPS system" ...

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

Antarctica's ice cores are like frozen diaries of Earth's past, preserving ancient air and climate clues. Most continuous ...