Current conditions in Japanese hot springs give clues as to how some of these ancient microorganisms survived and adapted.

Two tiny ingredients in ancient seawater – nickel and urea – may explain why oxygen arrived late on Earth. A team in Japan ...

Earth’s familiar green landscape might not have always been so. According to new scientific research published in the ...

New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event. Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

Earth was not always the blue-green world we know today: early Earth's oxygen levels were about a million times lower than we now experience. There were no forests and no animals. For ancient ...

New research reveals how the Earth might overcorrect for global warming. For a long time, scientists believed that the ...

Some 2.3 billion years ago, the Earth would have been unrecognizable to us. At that time, ancient microorganisms were the dominant life form; there were no animals, no plant life, and certainly no ...

A recent study has made microscopic fossils messengers from a warmer world, showing that the tropical Pacific Ocean could be ...

The Alien franchise works because it traps its characters in impossible situations where survival depends on cunning, luck, ...

A recently observed object called 2025 PN7 was found orbiting near the Earth. The quasi-moon is expected to accompany our ...

An artist's rendering of two comets that will make a near-earth passes later this month. The first, known as SWAN, will pass ...