Scientists are rethinking the origin of Earth's oceans. According to Quanta Magazine, new research suggests that much of Earth's water may have been generated internally through planetary processes—rather than arriving primarily aboard cosmic visitors like comets and asteroids. This challenges decades of assumptions about how our planet acquired its oceans. The finding has profound implications for understanding not just Earth's history, but potentially how water-bearing worlds form elsewhere in the cosmos.

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