Earth’s deep stores of water may have been locally sourced rather than trucked in from far-flung regions of the solar system. Earth is thought to have been born in an interplanetary desert, too close ...

Enstatite chondrite meteorites represent the building blocks of Earth because of their composition A new analysis of enstatite chondrites suggests the Earth had enough hydrogen to fill oceans This is ...

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Earth's supply of water didn't arrive with a bang from a comet or asteroid, researchers claim - it was likely here at the time our world first formed. A new study by the Centre de Recherches ...

Representative examples of 2D XRD images and microscopic images for selected enstatite grains in enstatite chondrites in the research. Enstatite chondrites (ECs) formed under extreme reducing ...

A new study finds that Earth's water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at the time the planet formed -- instead of far-reaching comets or asteroids delivering ...

A chemical element that’s not even in H 2 O — sulfur — is the reason Earth first got its water, a new study finds, bolstering a similar claim made a year ago. The discovery means our planet was born ...

Evidence from the fragments of a destroyed asteroid suggests that the shift in the positions of the giant planets in our Solar System billions of years ago happened between 60-100 million years after ...

The chemical composition of a meteorite could shake up scientists' understanding of how Earth got its water. Researchers found signs of hydrogen sulfide in a type of meteorite similar to those that ...

The conclusion contrasts with prior theories water come from comets or asteroids. The findings suggest our planet may have always been ‘wet’. Researchers from the Centre de Recherches Petrographiques ...