Astrophysicists have been grappling with the question of how water arrived on our young planet for decades. One of the ...

Three times as much water as in all of Earth’s oceans has been found in the inner disc of the young Sun-like star HL Tauri. HL Tauri sits around 450 light years away from Earth in the ...

A team of researchers led by Katherine Bermingham from Rutgers University in New Brunswick has discovered that water did not ...

Much progress is possible. In fact, due to the dedicated efforts of governments and NGOs since the 1992 Earth Summit, safe drinking water has been made available to some 1.7 billion people around ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass ...

Water evaporates from ground level and rises into the atmosphere, spreading across the world as vapour before cooling, condensing and returning to the Earth as rain or snow. However, decades of ...

This intriguing revelation is reshaping our understanding of the Earth's water cycle and its intricate geophysical processes. Prior to this groundbreaking discovery, scientists were already aware ...

The data obtained also provide an insight into the history of water on Earth: according to a widespread assumption, it only arrived on Earth after the formation of the Moon through a series of ...