A new study suggests that ancient microbes once cast as oxygen haters may have actually learned to use the gas, offering a ...

Ancient microbes tied to our earliest ancestors could use oxygen, reshaping ideas about how complex life began on Earth.

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually ...

Learn how oxygen’s early rise could have given complex life the energy boost it needed to evolve.

The most widely accepted scientific explanation for the arrival of all complex life on Earth has had an unsolved mystery at its heart. According to the theory, all plants, animals and fungi, known ...

As the climate crisis becomes a part of daily life with unprecedented heat waves and cold snaps, technology to effectively remove greenhouse gases is emerging as a critical global challenge. In ...

Oxygen fills the air today, but for most of Earth’s early history it barely existed. Scientists say the atmosphere did not hold steady oxygen until about 2.

Aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, a new study suggests.

American space agency announced it performed integrated prototype testing on the Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) to make oxygen on the Moon.