Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...

A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

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 ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

Scientists used to believe that when a massive impact created the Moon, it also delivered a lot of water to Earth. However, ...

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 ...