Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

H2O. An almost negligible proportion of a few per million consists of "heavy water," in which the hydrogen atoms (H) are ...

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

Saturn’s largest moon might not be the barren world it seems. Beneath Titan’s icy crust lies a vast ocean of liquid ...

Scientists at Michigan State University have discovered a new group of microbes living deep underground that help purify ...

The reason Earth’s oceans may have looked different in the ancient past is to do with their chemistry and the evolution of ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

Michigan State University scientists have uncovered a new microbe phylum which helps purify groundwater in Earth's deep ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, captivates scientists with its massive size, stunning rings, and diverse moons.

Sometimes rivers split into branches in unusual ways, reflecting the complexity of Earth's water system on land and how much we still must learn about it.