By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method ...

Using AI and advanced chemistry, scientists uncovered 3.3-billion-year-old chemical traces that mark the earliest evidence of ...

Researchers discovered that ancient peat bogs grew rapidly when the Southern Westerly Winds suddenly shifted thousands of ...

New study reveals tiny chemical clues in ancient rocks, showing that early life and early photosynthesis appeared much earlier than thought.

Fossilized remnants of ancient carbon from the heart of South Africa's Mpumalanga province have just yielded the earliest ...

Scientists uncover new evidence of early life on Earth using advanced molecular analysis and machine learning.

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

The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

An international team of scientists have uncovered new evidence of ancient wildfires that reshapes our understanding of Earth’s ancient history.

About 5,000 years ago, people living in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock by processing ore, an activity ...

MICROSCOPIC magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal “GPS system” for an ancient marine creature that used Earth’s magnetic field to navigate ...

Learn how researchers traced chemical evidence of early life in ancient rocks and found signs of photosynthesis nearly a ...