A new study dates a Scottish meteorite impact to 990 million years ago, changing the timeline of complex life on Earth.

A new study brings scientists closer to uncovering how life began on Earth.

Ocean microbes reveal how shedding genes drives survival and symbiosis, offering rare snapshots of evolution in progress.

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research ...

A new study reveals Earth's essential features formed within its first 100 million years, challenging long-held theories.

Life on Earth had to begin somewhere, and scientists think that “somewhere” is LUCA—or the Last Universal Common Ancestor.

How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a pair of scientists from the Southwest Research ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

National Research Council (U.S.) Board on Earth Sciences and Resources "The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it ...

Noah Hawley's TV prequel to the original Alien film feature first-class action and visuals — and a stunning season finale that provides both closure and exciting possibilities for the future.