Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

How did Earth keep its water during a time when the entire planet was a molten inferno? :globe_showing_Europe-Africa::fire: A groundbreaking 2025 study reveals that water may have been locked away ...

The findings provide a vital piece in understanding Earth's early evolution and the processes that made it capable of ...

A rare kind of meteorite known as enstatite chondrite resembles Earth's composition roughly 4.5 billion years ago. The key to their counterargument resides in a rare type of space rock called ...

The findings, published in the academic journal Science on Friday, reshape human understanding of how water is stored and ...

New research has uncovered compelling evidence that water from a comet is strikingly similar to that found in Earth's oceans, offering fresh support for the idea that comets may have played a crucial ...

A planet-forming disk with more water than all of Earth's oceans has been discovered. The disk, which is located in the constellation Taurus, is 450 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers used the ...

In the last hours of the last day of February 2021, a 29-pound chunk of space rock ripped into Earth's upper atmosphere at roughly 8.5 miles per second. As it streaked through the stratosphere, the ...

"Water on a planet this small is a landmark discovery. It pushes closer than ever to characterizing truly Earth-like worlds." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Recently, a team of researchers led by Prof. DU Zhixue from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of ...