Earth’s earliest atmosphere may have done more than shield the planet from the Sun. New research suggests the sky itself helped supply early life with key sulfur-based molecules, long thought to ...

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

According to a new study the early Earth’s ancient sky may have played a much larger, proactive role in generating the chemical ingredients for life than scientists once believed.The study ...

Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth’s surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved icebergs from the Twin Glaciers are seen in 2013 off Greenland's ...

The giant S2 meteorite hit Earth 3 billion years ago. It was four times the size of Mount Everest, unleashed a tsunami bigger than any in known human history and boiled the oceans — but an ancient ...

Scientists widely agree that an ancient planet likely smashed into Earth as it was forming billions of years ago, spewing debris that coalesced into the moon that decorates our night sky today. The ...

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...