Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...

Oxford researchers have unearthed a cosmic surprise showing that the hydrogen needed for water was embedded in the very rocks ...

All that said, the findings can’t confirm the terrestrial life theory beyond a doubt. There’s still a chance hydrogen-heavy ...

Scientists have long questioned whether an early Earth could have contained the appropriate hydrogen and oxygen on its own to ...

The chemical composition of a meteorite that was built much like early Earth shows evidence of ample hydrogen necessary to ...

New research has uncovered that early Earth may have contained far more hydrogen than previously thought, potentially ...

University of Oxford researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids ...

The type of meteorites that could have been crucial to the origins of life are very rare, but the asteroids they come from are common. Astronomers have long had an explanation for this paradox, but ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

Scientists from the University of Oxford analyzed a rare type of meteorite known as an enstatite chondrite. The space rock dates to around 4.6 billion years ago and is believed to be similar in ...

A rare kind of meteorite known as enstatite chondrite resembles Earth's composition roughly 4.5 billion years ago. 32,625 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than ...

Using a rare type of meteorite, known as an enstatite chondrite, which has a composition analogous to that of the early Earth (4.55 billion years ago), they have found a source of hydrogen which ...