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 ...

An international team of scientists have unlocked a key piece of Earth's evolutionary puzzle by decoding the structure of a ...

The mystery of life ... Earth’s history and its broader implications for life science. The study "‘The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system ...

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 ...