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For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This ...

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The Moon is a pretty peculiar object. It is believed that it formed from the incredible collision between the proto-Earth and ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

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A NASA study shows that meteorites delivered only a small amount of water to Earth over the past four billion years.