The mystery of extraterrestrial oceans may find its solution at the very heart of forming planets. An international research team has just experimentally demonstrated how water could emerge ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans and primitive atmospheres during their early years, according to new research ...

New research uses laboratory experiments to demonstrate that water is naturally created during the planet formation process. By squeezing and heating planetary analog materials between the tips of two ...