Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds. For ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It is now thought that water first formed in space only 100 to 200 million years after the Big ...

A new study in Nature Astronomy found that water came into being in the universe earlier than researchers in the field thought to be possible. In fact, study authors believe that water might have been ...

Researchers utilize a diamond cell anvil to create conditions of early planet formation and detect water production in the ...

Heavy water detected in the disk of V883 Orionis; chemical signature reveals that some of the water formed before the star ...

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If you’re a scientist studying the surface of Mars, few discoveries could be more exciting than seeing recent gullies apparently formed by running water. And that’s what scientists believed they saw ...

Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it does today. Understanding the history of water in the universe is critical to understanding how planets like Earth come to be. Astronomers typically ...

Astronomers detect doubly deuterated heavy water in a planetary formation disk for the first time ever in a system named V883 ...

You might assume that there has always been water on Earth — that water was there from the very beginning when our planet formed. But scientists increasingly think that water on Earth may have ...