For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

Earth is often described as a water world, but how that water arrived has never been settled. For years, the focus has rested ...

For many years, planetary scientists have believed that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history (OK, the time ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

A new NASA study using Apollo lunar soil samples challenges a long-held theory. It suggests meteorites were not the primary ...

A close-up view of a portion of a "relatively fresh" crater, looking southeast, as photographed during the third Apollo 15 lunar surface ...

The city’s architecture travels through time and continents, incorporating everything from slabs of the Italian Alps to meteorites that hit southern Africa 2bn years ago ...

A man out hunting for gold in an Australian park picked up what he thought was a promising nugget, only to discover years later that he had been storing a relic from the birth of the Solar System. The ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth’s history could have delivered ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered a major share of Earth's water. A new study by Universities Space Research ...

A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites arriving late in Earth's history could have delivered ...

Greenland is sovereign in everything other than defence and foreign policy, but by being part of the Kingdom of Denmark, it is included within Nato. As with any nation, access to its land and coastal ...