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 ...

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 ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that may have sparked extraterrestrial life in the very first galaxies.

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 ...

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 ...

Some researchers think comets might have originally brought some of the water, organic and atmospheric molecules to Earth that now make ... Therefore, the team believe that the U-Xe must have been ...

Instead of drilling blindly or assessing only the top layer of earth ... Ruden's team quickly realised after securing a tender from the Norwegian government to scout for water in Somalia, a ...