Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

Earth’s history is filled with incredible milestones, and the emergence of the first animals is one of the most captivating.

Establishing a direct link between the Earth's interior dynamics occurring within the first ... life," he says "It's the same thing for planets. There are some aspects of the very early evolution ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

All that said, the findings can’t confirm the terrestrial life theory beyond a doubt. There’s still a chance hydrogen-heavy ...

The rate of evolution depends on several factors. First ... of life on Earth. One such scientist was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a French researcher who proposed a different theory of evolution ...

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

What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes that may have shaped the course of human evolution ... life on the ground and transforming the skies. Earth’s magnetic ...