Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought possible.

What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?

According to a new study the early Earth’s ancient sky may have played a much larger, proactive role in generating the chemical ingredients for life than scientists once believed.The study ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy ...

They built four models through which it could distinguish things with biological antecedents from things which lacked them. The oldest sample they identified as biological was 3.3bn years old—twice ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Ancient peat bogs show that past shifts in the Southern Westerly Winds transformed carbon storage on Earth. Scientists say ...