Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath rock layers in the East Pilbara Terrane of Western Australia. The oldest ...

Both life and geological processes get their start in the Archaean era amidst a brew of atmospheric gases that probably includes methane and ammonia but little or no free oxygen. As Earth cools ...

Analysis - Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But ...

The new research, published recently in Nature, used numerical simulations to reconstruct the underwater light environment of ...

Deep-sea worms living near Costa Rica and off the western United States like to munch on single-celled Arachaea, according to a study published online in the International Society for Microbial ...