With an abundant supply of liquid water, Earth is one of the few places in the universe where life can develop and flourish. But scientists have long wondered where exactly all of our life-giving ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves ...

Scientists announced this week the discovery of a nearby "super-Earth" that could potentially support life, calling it a "water world." Scientists have long theorized the possibility of other ...

A new study brings scientists one step closer to answering the question of where Earth's water came from. Water makes up 71% of Earth's surface, but no one knows how or when such massive ...

Astronomers generally define a super-Earth as any planet between ... for the possibility of a thick atmosphere hugging a world with oceans of liquid water. Only detailed observations, perhaps ...

Water did not come to Earth from asteroids – it was already here, a new study by the University of Oxford has suggested. Many scientists believe that life began on Earth following bombardment by ...

A chemical element that’s not even in H 2 O — sulfur — is the reason Earth first got its water, a new study finds, bolstering a similar claim made a year ago. The discovery means our planet ...

Comets may have been responsible for the presence of water on Earth, scientists have claimed, according to a new research published this week in Science Advances. The researchers focused on Comet ...