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

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a ...

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

Instead, the researchers believe that the ingredients for the water in our oceans and rivers were actually part of Earth from the very beginning. In their study, the team analysed a rare asteroid made ...

Land water is vanishing faster. Earth's surface struggles to recover, risking food, water, and climate stability.

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s ...

and hope their work will strengthen efforts to reduce water overuse. Earth's soil moisture dropped by over 2,000 gigatons in roughly the last 20 years, the study says. For context, that's more ...

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...

Water constantly moves between the Earth and its atmosphere ... Climate change also is affecting snowpack, a critical part of the hydrological cycle. Melting snow helps fill reservoirs and ...