Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...

Western Australia’s Pilbara Craton is probably the last place you’d expect to learn anything about the role water played in ...

Geologists studying some of the planet’s oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.