"These are not random oddities. They are fingerprints of Earth's earliest history." The post Scientists Say Huge Structures ...

Earth is about 4.54 billion years old, but only a few rocks survive that were formed at the onset of the planet's history.

The origin of life on Earth is still enigmatic, but we are slowly unraveling the steps involved and the necessary ingredients. Scientists believe life arose in a primordial soup of organic chemicals ...

Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

A machine-learning breakthrough could lift the veil on Earth’s early history—and supercharge the search for alien life ...

Using AI and advanced chemistry, scientists uncovered 3.3-billion-year-old chemical traces that mark the earliest evidence of ...

The origin of life on Earth is a profound mystery — including when it started and how the ingredients for it were assembled. And a new study aimed at answering the latter question finds that some ...

The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first thought. The most popular theory of how the continents formed billions of years ago may not be right, according to a paper in ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

GREENBELT, Md. -- A team of international scientists says they've found sugars in meteorites that could be essential to the creation of life. The team, which included scientists from NASA and other ...

Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.