Microbes -- alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface ...

Now, scientists have found a stunning sample of microbes that appear to be two billion years old. Such a discovery could have ...

In a remarkable development, researchers have discovered microbes encased within the fault of a 2-billion-year-old rock. This ...

What makes these organisms incredibly special is that they have been cut off for billions of years – far longer than any ...

IN the middle of the last century much interest was shown in the problem of the genesis of igneous rocks, and especially in the manner of origin of diverse rock-types from a common stock or from a ...

Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in a 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from ...

A 2-billion-year-old rock has been unearthed in South Africa – and if its advanced age wasn’t enough to knock your socks off, ...

Scientists have identified living microbes within a 2-billion-year-old rock formation, marking the oldest known instance of ...

FOR some time the need of a text-book of general petrology in English has been acutely felt, owing to the rapid progress which the science has made in theoretical subjects and the inaccessibility ...

Mars wasn't always the cold desert we see today. There's increasing evidence that water once flowed on the red planet's ...

Scientists have discovered microorganisms residing in a rock that is over two billion years old, buried approximately 50 feet ...

A study has identified living microbes in 2-billion-year-old rock from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa. This ...