All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

In their view, inorganic molecules might have reacted due to energy from the Sun or lightning strikes to form life’s building ...

Hydrogen from geological formations makes up about 10% of the flammable gases that form the Yanartaş flames near Cirali, ...

Researchers in Western Australia have found the remnants of a nearly 3.5-billion-year-old impact crater – making it the ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

These results suggest that similar reactions between helium and iron may have occurred within Earth’s core shortly after its formation, trapping much of the primordial helium-3 in the material that ...

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

Besides, ancient earth was likely a hostile place due to a number of factors – the extreme weather, predatory dinosaurs, and ...

The recent discovery of a stupendously powerful neutrino has left scientists scratching their heads. New research suggests it ...