New research from the Earth-Life Science Institute at the Institute of Science Tokyo suggests iron-rich ecosystems played a ...

Japan's hot springs reveal how Earth's organisms survived the 'Great Oxidation Event' 2.3 billion years ago: Study A team ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

This theory was the brainchild of Francis Crick (yes, the one who helped identify DNA) and Leslie Orgel, the originator of ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

Experiment may help explain the ‘most intriguing causal paradox in biology’ about how early life forms came together about 4 billion years ago ...

For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth's atmosphere won't always be so welcoming. In fact, scientists predict that Earth will eventually undergo a drastic atmospheric shift—one ...

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions were not conducive to life when it formed. The gas-dust cloud from which ...

A new study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds ...

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