A rare meteorite recovered from Alaska is prompting scientists to rethinkhow Earth got its water. New findings suggest our planet may have had the hydrogen needed to form water on its own, without ...

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 ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Important clues to the environment in which the early Earth formed may be emerging from Purdue University scientists’ recent study of a particular class of meteorites. By ...

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research suggests the planet didn't need the delivery. Reading time 3 minutes Water ...

(CNN) — Researchers say they have uncovered 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 ...

A piece of the meteorite Sahara 97096 (about 10 centimeters, or roughly 4 inches, long), an enstatite chondrite (EC) meteorite that contains so much hydrogen that, if Earth formed entirely of this ...

Ivanov, A. V., MacPherson, Glenn J., Zolensky, M. E., Kononkova, N. N., and Migdisova, L. F. 1996. "The Kaidun meteorite: Composition and origin of inclusions in the ...

The period of orbital instability that led to the migration of the Solar System’s giant planets to their current orbit occurred between 60 and 100 million years after the beginning of Solar System ...

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