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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

“This finding supports the idea that the formation of water on Earth was a natural process, rather than a fluke of hydrated asteroids bombarding our planet after it formed.” ...