The late Archean period was a time of significant ... These periodic oxygen previews may have created conditions for early life forms to develop oxygen-processing abilities long before oxygen ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

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

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

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

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas periodically falls into the orbit ...

When it comes to safe places for life, supermassive black holes are probably the last place you’d consider safe for nearby ...

This pattern might help explain why oxygen whiffs seem to have become more common in the late Archean, just before the Great Oxidation Event. These periodic oxygen previews may have created conditions ...