Earth’s Water is 4.5 Billion Years Old

A new research article shows that Earth's water is as old as the Solar System, and has been present as the Sun grew and the planets formed. Image Credit: NASA/JPL

The origin of Earth’s water has been an enduring mystery. There are different hypotheses and theories explaining how the water got here, and lots of evidence supporting them.

But water is ubiquitous in protoplanetary disks, and water’s origin may not be so mysterious after all.

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