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Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself.

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For decades, scientists thought Earth's oceans arrived from space—smuggled in by comets or asteroids. New research suggests we may have made our own water during Earth's formation. According to Quanta Magazine, scientists now wonder whether Earth simply generated its oceans internally, reversing centuries of cosmic-delivery theories.

Source: https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-did-earth-get-its-oc...

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