Although it’s long been suggested that hydrothermal vents could’ve played a starring role in the formation of life on Earth ...

Virginia Tech’s study traces early eukaryotic evolution, highlighting life’s diversification since 2 billion years ago.

How unlikely was the moment when life first began on Earth? That remains one of the greatest mysteries about the origins of human existence. We still don't know how life arose, but it may well ...

“We can spend a couple weeks up here, and we start to forget about life on Earth,” he tells me. “First you forget the day of the week. Then you start forgetting to call your family.

By establishing the biggest paleobiology database of early Earth to date and employing cutting-edge analytical tools, ...

A study suggests ancient hot springs, like Yellowstone's, may have supported reactions crucial for the birth of life on our planet.

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe—life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do ...

Life may have emerged on Mars and Earth at the same time ... However, researchers did not know when water first appeared on Mars or how, after it had appeared, it might have created the conditions ...

As life evolved on Earth, it used and created minerals for exoskeletons and habitats. The hundred minerals present when life first formed have grown to about 5,000 today. For example, zircons are ...