Morning dew and roaring falls inspire poets. Hurricanes and typhoons wreak devastation. Melting glaciers and rising tides challenge us all, even in an ever more thirsty world. Water is so vital to ...

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

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...