Articles for tag: Geology, Ocean Formation, Planetary Evolution, Scientific Discovery, space and Earth

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How Did Earth’s Oceans Form – and Could We Ever Get New Ones?

Suhail Ahmed

Earth’s oceans feel eternal, yet their origin reads like a cosmic detective story with missing pages and conflicting witnesses. For decades, scientists argued over whether our water was baked out of young Earth’s rocks or delivered by wayward space rubble. New measurements from ancient minerals and meteorites have sharpened the picture, but they haven’t drained ...