New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we associate with modern continents. This means the telltale fingerprints of ...

Beneath the American Midwest, part of the continent is gradually losing its foundation. This slow geological phenomenon, ...

One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Discover the evolution of bacteria through machine learning, DNA comparisons, and the Great Oxidation Event 2.4 billion years ...

Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones and are not like big animals that leave clear signs in the ...

The planet Earth thawed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. The Moon was created when a Mars-sized object crashed. If there ...

Scientists have helped to construct a detailed timeline for bacterial evolution, suggesting some bacteria used oxygen long before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis.

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and evolution is difficult because they rarely ...

The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) some 2.4 billion years ago established the oxygen-rich atmosphere that many living things ...