In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that certain lichen species can survive Mars-like conditions, including ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

Earth's oceans may have displayed a very different color several billion years ago. This hypothesis emerges from a recent ...

An electron microscopy images of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria that featured on the covers of the 2022 edition of The ...

The study sheds light on life during the Great Oxidation Event, a pivotal time roughly 2.4 billion years ago when ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

The earliest lifeforms, cyanobacteria, appeared around 4 billion years ago. These organisms, now known as algae, were among the first to engage in oxygenic photosynthesis.

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...