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ScienceDaily: Nebulae News

ScienceDaily: Nebulae News


Earth's water is older than the sun: Likely originated as ices that formed in interstellar space

Posted: 25 Sep 2014 11:12 AM PDT

Water was crucial to the rise of life on Earth and is also important to evaluating the possibility of life on other planets. Identifying the original source of Earth's water is key to understanding how life-fostering environments come into being and how likely they are to be found elsewhere. New work found that much of our solar system's water likely originated as ices that formed in interstellar space.

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