But life emerged prior to that; we have fossils of microbes from 3.48 billion years ago. And scientists think that conditions on Earth may have been stable enough to support life from around 4.3 ...

Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished together by gravity. That same cloud gave rise to our entire solar system, including our star, the sun.

According to the study, the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), the first organism that spawned all the life that exists today on Earth, emerged as early as 4.2 billion years ago. The DNA ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old. Scientists think that by 4.3 billion years ago, Earth may have developed conditions suitable to support life. The oldest known fossils, however, are only 3.7 ...

The questions we are investigating in Münster are as follows: What is the driving mechanism of plate tectonics, how did the Earth develop from around 4.5 billion years ago until today? Why are there ...

Australia is believed to be the oldest landmass on Earth, with parts of its crust ... have been dated to 4.374 billion years ago and are the oldest known rocks on the planet.

The Earth formed an estimated 4.5 billion years ago but there has been little evidence of meteorite strikes in the first half of its existence. Our planet was mostly a water world during the ...

this added weight to the idea that the Moon was formed when a Mars-sized object called Theia collided with the proto-Earth roughly 4.5 billion years ago. Debris from the impact was thrown into ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to dominate the planet. All this happened about 4.5 billion years after Earth ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth ... years. So it is important to think about the risk." Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid formed as part of a parent body approximately 4.5 billion ...