The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the ...

Although these new life-forms spread worldwide ... The Mistaken Point fossils, going back 570 million years, are the earliest evidence on Earth of large, biologically complex beings.

The paper shows how Earth's earliest life forms—microbes such as O 2-producing bacteria and methane-producing archaea—shaped, and were shaped by, changes in the oceans, continents, and atmosphere.

multicelled life-forms almost four billion years later. What Was Happening on Earth at This Time The Precambrian is the earliest of the geologic ages, which are marked by different layers of ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

The earliest humans emerged about 300,000 years ago. While many of Earth’s earliest life forms have long since gone extinct, some animals have stood the test of time–surviving through mass ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

“Many environments on Earth host life in hot water systems, including hot springs, and hydrothermal vents. Such environments may have given rise to the earliest life forms on Earth. Our new ...

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ...

Why it's incredible: The rock formations contain traces of the earliest life-forms on Earth. The Bungle Bungles are a collection of sandstone towers with distinctive orange and dark-gray stripes ...