New research reveals ancient ripples on Mars, providing compelling evidence of long-lost lakes that once existed 3.7 billion ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them can help us determine if there was ever enough water on Mars to sustain ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

The digital images were coming from a new 3-D scanning ... going—and on how fast the planet could warm in the future. Water is Earth’s lifeblood, and for the first time, high-flying sensors ...

NASA recently released photos of these ... the same planet and also on Earth. This peculiar pattern indicated to experts that the Red Planet once could have had water and supported life.

Earth system models are essential tools for studying complex planetary processes, including interactions between the atmosphere and biosphere.

The Dead Sea is the lowest point on the surface of the Earth ... or a bottle of water. On the island, they basked in the sun while the drone flew overhead, snapping photos. The only way to ...

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 research team has discovered another piece in the puzzle of the formation of the Moon and water on Earth. The prevailing theory was that the Moon was the result of a collision between the early ...

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 ...