A chemical element that’s not even in H 2 O — sulfur — is the reason Earth first got its water, a new study finds, bolstering a similar claim made a year ago. The discovery means our planet ...

Water is one of the biggest factors behind life on Earth. Researchers are always looking ... could be present in the meteorite's abundant sulfur. To verify this, they had to first locate the ...

but the team did not investigate how the hydrogen-sulfur compound eventually led to water. Other researchers say the analysis is an important step in understanding the origin of water on Earth.

Researchers have created a "fingerprint" of a sulfur-based molecule ... Related: 'Microlightning' between water droplets could have sparked life on Earth. Here's how Bunn and her team specifically ...

Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earth r. More specifically ... looking for compounds that included sulfur. The previous analysis of Sahara ...