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

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

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research suggests the planet didn't need the delivery.

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

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

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

Studded with molten clumps of minerals (chondrules) distributed like currants in a fruitcake, the Allende meteorite, as it came to be known, contains the oldest material in the Smithsonian ...

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 ...

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