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 ...

“This distinction sets up a great natural experiment for us to see if the shape, or size, of bends in rivers is distinct from ...

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

Water might have formed much earlier than previously thought. Computer simulations show supernovae produced significant ...

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.

Earth may now be home to the most glorious beaches in the solar system , but 3 billion years ago, it may have been Mars that ...

Outside of a handful of valleys in Antarctica, the Atacama is the driest place on Earth. The inhospitable landscape of sand, bare rock, and salt flats is so extreme and otherworldly that it’s used as ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s intriguing moons, is hiding an ocean beneath its icy shell — an ocean that might harbor alien life.

Université Paris Cité provides funding as a member of The Conversation FR. When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...