While researchers are still debating the exact timeline, one thing is becoming clear. Life didn’t take long to get started.

One of the biggest scientific mysteries is where life on Earth started ... minerals played a crucial role in the transition from early Earth geochemistry to biology. Our newly published research ...

About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful ... all of which may have contributed to the early development of life, the University of Portsmouth ...

The origin of life on Earth stands ... Scientists now believe that Earth’s early atmosphere had a different chemical makeup from Miller and Urey’s recipe. Even so, the experiment gave rise to a new ...

"We cannot travel back 3 billion years to observe the cyanobacteria on Earth," said Dr. Ming-Yang Ho of National Taiwan University, lead author of the study. "That is why the early-branched A.

This aligns with fossil evidence, where some geological deposits of such minerals from the early history of Earth contain fossil traces of the first microbial life. The researchers conclude from ...

Scientists say a massive meteorite struck north-west Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought - and may have influenced early life on Earth. The meteorite, which created a layer of ...