R ecent research published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta reveals that water reached Earth during the late ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

Scientists used to believe that when a massive impact created the Moon, it also delivered a lot of water to Earth. However, ...

Although water is a key ingredient for life on Earth, there is also no guarantee that its presence in the early universe would have made extraterrestrial life more likely. Harry is a U.K.-based ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass ...

The data obtained also provide an insight into the history of water on Earth: according to a widespread assumption, it only arrived on Earth after the formation of the Moon through a series of ...

Water evaporates from ground level and rises into the atmosphere, spreading across the world as vapour before cooling, condensing and returning to the Earth as rain or snow. However, decades of ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

Aside from Earth, astronomers have found water in several places throughout the solar system ... already in place in the ...