Meteorite impact reactions may have generated building blocks for life in the oceans of the prebiotic Earth, says a team of scientists led by Dr Yoshihiro...
American and Canadian scientists have reported in the latest issue of Science that the magnetic field of our planet is at least 4 billion years old, up...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a group of astronomers has discovered an enormous cloud of hydrogen dispersing from the warm, Neptune-sized...
Violent collisions between the infant Earth and other objects in our Solar System generated significant amounts of iron vapor, says a group of researchers...
The ability to use atmospheric nitrogen to support more widespread life was thought to have appeared 2 billion years ago. Now, a study led by Dr Eva Stüeken...
A huge asteroid, up to five times larger than the rock thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, crashed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago, say researchers...
European scientists examined liquid basalt at record high pressures and temperatures to better understand how our planet evolved billions of years ago.
Early...
According to new research reported in the journal Scientific Reports (full paper), infertile clay in oceans of the early Earth may have been the birthplace...
An analysis of three-billion-year-old soils from South Africa shows that oxygen appeared in the atmosphere more than 600 million years earlier than previously...
A new study, published in the journal Precambrian Research, describes evidence that primitive forms of life existed on land 2.2 billion years ago.
Bright,...
Scientists from the United States and Japan have discovered unusual spindle-shaped organic microfossils in 3 billion-year-old rocks from the Pilbara Craton...
According to research led by Dr Magali Pujol from the University of Lorraine in France, bubbles of water found in Archaean hydrothermal quartz in Australia...
Researchers from Canada and the United Kingdom led by Prof Chris Ballentine from the University of Manchester have discovered ancient water pockets that...
Researchers have found evidence that material contained in young oceanic lava flows originated at the Earth’s surface in the Archean era, more than 2...
New research on a mineral called molybdenite published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters provides new insights about the changing chemistry...
Scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that the atmosphere of Earth just 500 million years after its creation was not a methane-filled...
