In 2024, scientists made headlines when they found evidence of copious amounts of water inside a layer of the Martian crust.

Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford ...

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 ...

NASA’s ICESat-2 has hit an incredible milestone: 2 trillion laser shots fired from orbit! This Earth-monitoring marvel has ...

This water, now over 4.5 billion years old, has been perpetually renewed through Earth's water cycle. My research team has recently proposed a new theory to explain how water first arrived on Earth.

As researchers continue to study this hidden water and its effects on the planet, we may uncover even more secrets about how ...

The relationship between topography and the terrestrial water cycle has been documented for thousands of years, yet there is ...

On Earth, however, a protective mechanism ensures the total mass of water has remained relatively constant from the end of the capture period until today. If water rises too high into the ...

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

Tiny ‘microlightning’ flashes inside water droplets may have sparked life on Earth - Study says tiny electric discharges ...

A new study adds another angle to the much-disputed Miller-Urey hypothesis, which argues that life on the planet emerged from ...