Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows that hydrogen interacting with molten rock inside young planets can create vast amounts of water. (CREDIT: ...

Hydrogen is attracting attention as a future energy source for applications such as fuel cell vehicles and power generation.

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets of gas. For a long time, scientists believed those fiery worlds were too ...

The experiments recreated what happens as new planets grow from swirling disks of gas and dust. In their infancy, these bodies collide, heat up, and melt into global magma oceans surrounded by thick ...