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

Water is one of the biggest factors behind life on Earth. Researchers are always looking for answers to how water formed on ...

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

Scientists discover hydrogen in a rare meteorite, suggesting Earth had the ingredients to make water from the start.

Most meteorites are small — pebble-sized or smaller — chunks of rocky material that, in most cases, get buried in the soil or ...

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

New Oxford research suggests Earth's water may have originated from its own building blocks, challenging the asteroid theory ...

“The discovery of hydrogen in this meteorite means that Earth potentially ... The August 2020 study found that the space rock’s chondrules, or minuscule spherical objects, and organic material ...

A previous study led by a French team had originally identified traces of hydrogen within the meteorite inside organic materials and non-crystalline parts of the chondrules (millimeter-sized ...