Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself.
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Earth's oceans may have formed from within the planet itself, not just from water-carrying asteroids or comets as long believed. New research suggests hydrogen and oxygen locked inside Earth's rocky mantle combined to produce water over billions of years, fundamentally changing our understanding of how habitable planets form.
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