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Scientists Just Discovered How Planets Make Water from Magma, No Comets Needed

In the early chaos of planetary formation, before crusts cooled or atmospheres settled, water might already have been ...

Large quantities of water are created as a natural consequence of planet formation, experimental work demonstrates

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...
Science News

Some planets might home brew their own water

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

JWST Finds a Planet That Shouldn’t Exist – and It’s Made Almost Entirely of Carbon

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress ...
Carnegie Science

How do planets get wet? Experiments show water creation during planet formation process

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...
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Comets like 3I/ATLAS could jump-start the birth of giant planets around distant stars

Interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS could serve as seeds for giant planet formation, potentially explaining how massive planets ...
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How AI and sand dunes on Mars can reveal the planet's history, one grain at a time

The method, developed by researchers at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, uses images of dune surfaces to estimate ...