Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints ...

Using AI and advanced chemistry, scientists uncovered 3.3-billion-year-old chemical traces that mark the earliest evidence of ...

Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites. One hypothesis has been that our proto-Earth (what the earliest stages of ...

Before Earth, there was “proto Earth,” a primitive hunk of rock that formed four and a half billion years ago. It was drastically different to the Earth we know today, heaving with lava and rock all ...

Researchers discovered that ancient peat bogs grew rapidly when the Southern Westerly Winds suddenly shifted thousands of ...

Because oxygen-bearing sulfate minerals trap and preserve signals from Earth's atmosphere, scientists closely study how they form. Sulfates are stable over billions of years, so their oxygen isotopes ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

Washington, DC— Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists found ...

An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has ...