Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...

Yet another hypothesis suggests that organic molecules didn’t originate on Earth at all. Rather, they formed in space and were carried here by comets or fragments of asteroids, a process known ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the ...

"Given how rare such evidence is due to [Earth's] geological recycling processes ... no geologist had laid eyes on these stunning features since they formed." ...

To recreate a scenario that may have produced Earth’s first organic molecules ... is we have seen that little droplets, when they’re formed from water, actually emit light and get this ...