A rare kind of meteorite known as enstatite chondrite resembles Earth's composition roughly 4.5 billion years ago. The key to their counterargument resides in a rare type of space rock called ...

Water is essential when it comes to life on Earth, but how exactly it formed on the planet remains a mystery. Past evaluations have proven that the initial days of Earth were too hot to retain ice. At ...

For centuries, people have wondered where Earth’s vast oceans came from. Our planet didn’t form with much water, yet today it’s covered in it. New research using powerful radio telescopes is bringing ...

Life may have emerged on Mars and Earth at the same time. That's according to new evidence found in a Martian meteorite that indicates the key ingredient for life, water, appeared on Mars around 4.4 ...

On the 11th, a joint press release from the University of Tokyo and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology announced that an analysis of rock samples collected from the 'Ryugu' ...

This article was originally published on Supercluster, a website dedicated to telling humanity's greatest outer space stories. Do us a favor: take a sip of water. Done it? Good. You probably needed ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71% of its surface. Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes called Earth's twin based on their similar size ...