Earth's oceans could one day turn purple. Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a ...

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

Water is essential to life, yet its true origin on Earth still stirs debate. Scientists have long wondered whether it came ...

Land water is vanishing faster. Earth's surface struggles to recover, risking food, water, and climate stability.

The Medusae Fossae Formation of Mars has ice deposits over 2 miles deep, potentially providing vital water resources for exploration.

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

After a year of checking, they determined it wasn't.

“Given that lightning is an intermittent and unpredictable phenomenon, whereas water sprays are so common on Earth, we suggest ... compounds all over the planet, and these building blocks ...

but the tiny sparks made by crashing waves or waterfalls that jump-started life on this planet. "On early Earth, there were water sprays all over the place -- into crevices or against rocks ...