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

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

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

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

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

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into ...

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

“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 ...

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