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

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

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming ...