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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Samples from asteroid Itokawa collected by a Japanese space probe suggest that Earth's water may ...

Some of the oldest objects in the solar system still drift above your head. Asteroids and comets formed before Earth took ...

New research ultimately poses more questions than it answers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have eliminated one ...

In recent years, science has unveiled some astonishing secrets—from what lurks inside black holes to the discovery of a vast new “8th continent.” Even closer to home, researchers have uncovered a ...

The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science. Various answers have been proposed, all of which remain unverified. To find out if we are alone in the galaxy, we will need ...

It’s a paradox: Life needs water to survive, but a world full of water can’t generate the biomolecules that would have been essential for early life. Or so researchers thought. However, when the first ...

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Clues about water in Earth's deep interior were recently extracted from rare diamonds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A rare ...

Samples from an asteroid collected by a Japanese probe suggest that Earth's water may have come from the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...