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.

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 ...

Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh ...

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 ...