All of Earth’s Water Comes From Space

If there ’s one thing that makes our base planet peculiar — other than the presence of you and me — it ’s water . This isThe puritanical Marbleafter all . But for something that ’s so characteristically Earth - y , its stock arepositively extra - mundane .

The Secrets Behind the Most Famous Earth Image of All Time

As MinuteEarth excuse , the question is n’t so much whether our water supply come from outer space , but rather how it begin here , what variety of space rock’n’roll it was ride on . It turn out that while there are tons of different comets and asteroid out there , fly stock-still water through every corner of the galaxy , our azure lakes came from a very specific flavor of space rock .