Two perplexing structures deep inside Earth might be ancient remnants of our early planet, and they could hold clues about ...

How did life begin? An international team of researchers from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany suggest that the answer ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer ...

"These are not random oddities. They are fingerprints of Earth's earliest history." The post Scientists Say Huge Structures ...

According to a new study, Earth’s atmosphere might have been more important for the origin of life story than we gave it ...

The origin of life on Earth has always been a mystery. For many years, scientists have looked to the stars, believing that the building blocks of life that set forth evolution here on our planet came ...

One fateful day about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with proto-Earth, turning both into a ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

Though the exact length of a "stadia" is unknown, his measurement is thought to be accurate to within one percent of the ...

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...