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Scientists found a clue to the source of Earth’s water

The source of Earth's water has been a longstanding debate. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory found an answer by looking at rocks from the moon. The Earth-moon system formed together from the impact of two large bodies. Their histories are very much linked. The moon lacks plate tectonics and weathering processes....

Sun and Moon influence plate motions on Earth

Washington University geophysicist Anne M. Hofmeister have proposed that imbalanced forces and torques in the Earth-moon-sun system drive circulation of the whole mantle. The new study provided an alternative to the hypothesis of the movement of tectonic plates is connected to convection currents in the...