New Curtin University research has revealed that a massive meteorite struck northwestern Scotland about 200 million years ...

The study, led by paleogeneticist Edmund Moody from the University of Bristol, claims that LUCA may have emerged 4.2 billion ...

A team of researchers has linked Earth's slowing rotation to the Great Oxidation Event, which made the planet more habitable ...

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

Microbes - alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface.

(MENAFN- The Conversation) There are roughly a trillion species of microorganisms on Earth – the vast majority of which are bacteria. Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones ...

How Did Life Start on Earth? Life arose on Earth somewhere between 3.5 billion years and 3.8 billion years ago, yet the circumstances that allowed this to happen have been subject to constant ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

A study published in Nature on 2 April reveals that Earth's first crust, formed about 4.5 billion years ago, probably had chemical ... marking the earliest evolution of life.

2.4 billion years ago. At that time, the atmosphere of the Earth changed dramatically. A group of bacteria called the cyanobacteria invented a trick that would alter the story of life forever ...