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 ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

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

Four private spacefarers on a mission known as Fram2 set out to become the first humans to fly in orbit over both Earth's ...

Rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs aren't just scenic parts of our landscape—they're also vital engines for life on Earth ...

Rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs aren't just scenic parts of our landscape -- they're also vital engines for life on Earth. These inland waters 'breathe' oxygen, just like we do. But a new study ...

The Chang’e-6 mission returned soil samples from the South Pole–Aitken impact basin of the lunar farside, providing an opportunity to study the water contents of the farside mantle.

Space travel demands strict dietary rules for astronaut safety. NASA bans certain foods on the ISS due to microgravity ...

Lockheed Martin has been part of all NASA Mars missions to date and it has been part of every single sample return mission to ...