Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

MSU scientists studied microbes in Yellowstone hot springs to understand how life adapted to increasing oxygen levels.

An asteroid strike could cool the planet's climate, harm crops, and disrupt food supply, but it may also increase plankton ...

A team of researchers led by Katherine Bermingham from Rutgers University in New Brunswick has discovered that water did not ...

the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as ... How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct.

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a prison planet where the biology is very different to that on Earth ...

A recent study from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Most life on Earth relies on the sun’s energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...

Researchers believe this points to a possible two-step evolution of complex life on Earth. "While the first attempt failed to spread, the second went on to create the animal biodiversity we see on ...