The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

Scientists used to believe that when a massive impact created the Moon, it also delivered a lot of water to Earth. However, this study challenges that idea. Instead, it suggests that Earth got its ...

We think of Earth as the “blue” planet. More than 70 percent of it is covered by water. But 97 percent of this water is in the oceans and 2 percent is locked in glaciers and ice caps ...

Yet, perhaps the most awe-inspiring is this: deep beneath our feet, below the Earth's crust ... for this elusive deep water," he elaborated. How, one might ask, did scientists stumble upon ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass ...