In 2024, scientists made headlines when they found evidence of copious amounts of water inside a layer of the Martian crust.
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 ...
Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...
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.
The relationship between topography and the terrestrial water cycle has been documented for thousands of years, yet there is ...
As researchers continue to study this hidden water and its effects on the planet, we may uncover even more secrets about how ...
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 ...
T here are multiple theories that explain the origin of life on Earth, but one of the most disputed ones was proposed in 1953 ...
Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...
A new study adds another angle to the much-disputed Miller-Urey hypothesis, which argues that life on the planet emerged from ...