Scientists discovered a previously hidden ecosystem - lagoons in Argentina's Puna de Atacama harbors microbial communities, ...

The Hapcheon Meteorite Impact Crater, located in the Chogye and Jeokjung-myeon areas of Hapcheon County, South Gyeongsang ...

Home to 1.4-billion-year-old fossils and now on UNESCO’s Tentative World Heritage List, Salkhan Fossil Park in Uttar Pradesh offers a glimpse into some of Earth’s earliest life forms.

"While the site had previously been identified as an ancient impact crater, its exact age remained uncertain." ...

"This is the first comprehensive evidence suggesting that stromatolites could form in hydrothermal lakes created by asteroid impacts." ...

Somehow, on this beautiful blue marble we call Earth, the astonishing phenomenon we call life emerged long ago, spreading until it covered nearly every corner of the planet. One school of thought ...

On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu (Shark Bay). To the untrained eye they look like a collection of rocks and ...

A team from the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences in Lucknow has begun a detailed study of stromatolites, the layered structures built by primitive cyanobacteria more than a billion years ago.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In the beginning, there were prebiotic compounds that were the ingredients for life but had not yet come together in the right ways. Organic sulfur ...

In Greenland's icy expanse, scientists unearthed 3.7-billion-year-old stromatolite fossils, the oldest evidence of life on Earth, predating Australian finds by 220 million years. This discovery ...

Dr. Ashley Martin: "A large ammonium reservoir would have been very beneficial for early life, providing the nitrogen source needed for biological processes to occur." A new study published in Nature ...