Deep-sea vent metals may have helped early cells run essential chemistry before they could survive on their own.

The work challenges the assumption that all life descended from one free-living cell. Instead, it suggests that two microbial ...

How and where did the first forms of life arise? These are the main questions driving research at the Institute of Molecular ...

Life on Earth may have first emerged from complex chemical reactions in two different ways near a deep-sea hot spring, a new ...

The energy major announced it’s marketing Archaea amid a strategic pivot to streamline its business. BP’s $4.1 billion ...

Life on Earth is thought to have emerged from the primordial ooze some four billion years ago. Now a provocative new study ...

The earliest free-living bacteria and archaea may have emerged separately, even though both inherited the same genetic code from a shared ancestor. Metals inside hydrothermal vents may have powered ...

For life to get started it may have depended on one of the rarest, and currently most expensive, metals on Earth.

BP is to sell its Archaea Energy biogas business, it disclosed in Q2 results today. It bought the Houston-based firm for ...

BP plans to sell Archaea Energy after the US biogas operation delivered weaker-than-expected returns. Second-quarter adjusted profit climbed to $5.7 billion as Middle East disruption lifted oil and ...