We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

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

The Earth's hidden ocean is 700 km beneath this continent. Scientists made a discovery that changes everything we thought we ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

Water can exist in two liquid states under extreme conditions, reshaping our understanding of its molecular behavior.

No, the lake didn't suddenly shrink, nor did the city beyond the horizon teleport closer. The illusion is called a "superior mirage" — a phenomenon where shifting temperatures over the water bends ...

Way back in 1858 Nongqawuse, a prophetess of the Xhosa tribe in South Africa had a vision telling her that all cattle of the tribe would have to be slaughtered, having been reared by ...

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded at the International Space Station since June last year, are finally being ...

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery—the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe.

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...

On Tuesday afternoon, two men were rescued on Madison Lake about 1600 feet from shore after falling through the ice.