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 ...

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8 Ways Earth Has Already Been Shaped by Space Events

Suhail Ahmed

Space doesn’t just loom above us – it has stamped its fingerprints into our rocks, oceans, climate, and even the length of our day. Scientists now read those marks like a case file, tracing cataclysms and quiet nudges that steered Earth’s story long before we arrived. What emerges is part thriller, part user’s manual for ...