Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

How animate life was formed from inanimate matter has always been a mystery, but scientists are closer to finding what may ...

Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...

It helps to put it on a more fathomable scale. Watch to see where Earth's major events would fall on a timeline stretching across the US. Produced by Alex Kuzoian Follow BI Video: On Facebook More ...

Martin models the evolution of life on Earth in a few minutes using the visual aid of a walk through timeline. From 4.6 billion years ago when the Earth was red hot, the timeline illustrates the ...

A group of NASA scientists has come up with a timeline for the complete end of life on Earth using mathematical models ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

Electrical energy may also have sparked the beginnings of life on Earth billions of years ago, though with a bit less scenery-chewing than that classic film scene. But where did that organic ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.