Scientists Crack Open 2-Billion-Year-Old Rock, Find Living Microbes
The discovery raises intriguing possibilities for the search for life beyond our planet.

Scientists have identified living microbes within a 2-billion-year-old rock formation, marking the oldest known instance of such organisms found in ancient geological structures.
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