The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

For roughly 2 billion years of Earth's early history, the atmosphere contained no oxygen, the essential ingredient required ...

"These are not random oddities. They are fingerprints of Earth's earliest history." The post Scientists Say Huge Structures Inside Earth Are Related to the Origin of Life appeared first on Futurism.

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model might make more sense ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for 2 months, may have a "lunar origin." However, it is about to break free from our planet, making it tricky to tell for ...

Researchers say they have uncovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into question widely held beliefs about the origins of water and the evolution ...

The origin of life on Earth has been mulled over by scientists for centuries. We now know that life’s building blocks are RNA, amino acids, and cells. But if life originated from the primordial ooze ...

Billions of years of evolution have made modern cells incredibly complex. Inside cells are small compartments called organelles that perform specific functions essential for the cell’s survival and ...

Until now, only 6% of meteorites had a known source, but now we can trace the origin of more than 70% of these rocks. Reading time 3 minutes About 466 million years ago, Earth was bombarded with a ...