“This is the first time that life got big,” Laflamme ... had believed that the Cambrian explosion was the point when life on Earth opened out, kaboom, like a starburst of wondrous beasts ...

Few questions in the history of science eclipse the all-important investigation into how life first formed on Earth. Although there are many theories, one leading idea is that the hydrothermal vents ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

In a new peer reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “last universal common ancestor.” The ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest ...

A Rhoomba vacuum might mimic a hungry lifeform, but researchers have found ancient fossils of one of Earth's first animals, ...

As life evolved on Earth, it used and created minerals for exoskeletons and habitats. The hundred minerals present when life first formed have grown to about 5,000 today. For example, zircons are ...

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

From 4.6 billion years ago when the Earth was red hot, the timeline illustrates the evolution of the first life forms through to plants photosynthesising, bacterial evolution, marine life ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists have spent an incredible amount of manpower attempting to determine what ...