Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

But life emerged prior to that; we have fossils of microbes from 3.48 billion years ago. And scientists think that conditions on Earth may have been stable enough to support life from around 4.3 ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...

When Jupiter was young, about 4.5 billion years ago, a protoplanet with 10 times the mass of Earth crashed head-on into its surface. The impact shook Jupiter to its core - literally. That's the ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

Billions of years ago, the fourth planet from the sun could have been mistaken for Earth’s smaller twin ... past—up until about 4.12 to 4.14 billion years ago—Mars seems to have had an ...

Samples of matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life to Earth ... around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

Narrator: 4 and a half billion years ago, clouds of cosmic dust and gas which were orbiting the Sun collided into one another, creating the Earth, our planet, the home of mankind. It spins at 1000 ...

Gregory says, 'The asteroids are rocky debris left over from the era of planet formation, 4.5 billion years ago. 'They are very valuable to us as scientists, because they contain material that Earth ...