Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to ...

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

A new study by Oxford University suggests Earth’s water was present from the start, with hydrogen incorporated during the ...

Scientists have discovered where Earth's water comes from, and say that it wasn't brought to the planet by asteroid impacts ...

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

Our Changing Planet is an ambitious natural history series exploring the issues facing the planet’s most threatened ...

Only 30%-50% of the remaining objects survive the atmospheric passage and become meteorites. The debris pieces whose orbits bring them closer to the Sun tend to be significantly more durable, making ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down ...

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...