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

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

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

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

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

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

The researchers found that the majority of the hydrogen contained within the meteorite was intrinsic, rather than being ...

A team of scientists at the French National Centre for Scientific Research had previously analyzed the meteorite, known as ...

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 ...

The breakthrough came from a rare space rock known as LAR 12252, a meteorite known as an enstatite chondrite. Scientists believe these meteorites are made from the same stuff that formed the early ...

Water is essential for life as we know it, and its presence on Earth has puzzled scientists for years. While it's clear that water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen, the question of how these ...

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