Scientists Claim Water on Earth Was Formed Naturally and Did Not Land as a Fluke of Hydrated Asteroids Water is one of the biggest factors behind life on Earth.

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.

There’s still a chance hydrogen-heavy meteorites helped us along. Still, the new evidence makes a strong case that ancient Earth had the ability to form water all on its own—no space rocks needed.

They sent sprays of room temperature water into a chamber filled with nitrogen, methane, carbon dioxide, and ammonia gases—a.k.a. the atmosphere of early Earth.

Given the seeming paucity of moisture in the leftover remains of Earth's building blocks, planetary scientists have long assumed our planet's water supply came after it formed in a rain of ...

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into question widely held beliefs about the origins of water and the planet’s ...

The total amount of water in Earth’s lakes, rivers and soils has drastically dropped since the turn of the century, a new study finds. The primary culprit: rising global temperatures.

Earth Day – pollution and the water cycle By Jared Shelton, Payton Counts April 25, 2025 7:35 pm Published April 24, 2025 3:53 pm ...

Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earth r. More specifically, where did the very first water molecules form, and how? In 2020, researchers at ...

This finding calls into question the widely held belief that hydrogen arrived on Earth in asteroids that bombarded what was previously a dry, rocky planet incapable of supporting life. “We assumed ...