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

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

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

The origin of water can be traced back to the birth of the solar system. The series of events that triggered the phenomenon of the formation of aquatic water bodies on Earth remain a source of ...

Land water is vanishing faster. Earth's surface struggles to recover, risking food, water, and climate stability.

Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

Soda lakes might hold the key to the emergence of life on Earth. These unique environments could have concentrated the ...

One of the most studied space rocks of all time has given scientists another big surprise, with the "mudball meteorite" Aguas ...

Could microbes survive in the permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) of the Moon? This is what a recent study presented at ...

Here’s what you need to know about one of the fastest-growing environmental and social movements worldwide—to secure legal ...

Mars may look like a dry and dusty world, but just beneath its surface lies one of the most surprising discoveries in ...