“Intraterrestrial” life found in rocks below the seafloor.
The discovery that ancient rocks harbored microbial life deep below the seafloor confirms a long-standing hypothesis that interactions between mantle…
Sudden increase in ice loss in Antarctica
An international group of scientists has observed a sudden increase in ice loss on the Southern Antarctic Peninsula, what was…
Mars may have liquid water
We’ve known for a long time that there is water in the form of ice on Mars. But now, new…
Viable ecosystems found in subglacial lake deep beneath West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Analysis of water samples taken from subglacial Lake Whillans – hidden beneath 2,600 feet of ice in Antarctica – has…
Could heat from a Martian volcano create a habitable environment?
The slopes of a giant Martian volcano, once covered in glacial ice, may have been home to one of the…
Water vapor seen gushing from Europa
The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered water vapor erupting from the south pole of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Astronomers have long…
Hubble spots water on distant exoplanets
Peering into the atmospheres of planets many trillions of miles away using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have found the…
Water discovered in remnants of destroyed exoplanet
Astrophysicists have found the first evidence of a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our solar system in its shattered remains…
New evidence for water and organics on Mercury
Scientists say data transmitted by the Messenger spacecraft provide compelling support for the notion that Mercury harbors abundant water ice…
Water not necessary for life?
The proteins that are vital to living creatures evolved in Earth’s water-rich environment and it was thought that water was…
New Europa fractured surface theory holds water – and maybe life
Taking observations of Earth’s ice sheets and floating ice shelves and applying them to Europa, scientists say Jupiter’s moon may…
Largest water mass in universe discovered
A reservoir of water that is 100,000 times the mass of the sun has been detected by an international team…
Water, the simplest appetite control method
An appetite control agent that requires no prescription, has no side-effects and costs almost nothing? A new clinical trial has…
Boffins ponder moon-water formation
When Apollo astronauts returned from the moon 40 years ago, they brought back moon rocks to undergo analysis, and one…
Estrogen contamination in bottled water “just the tip of the iceberg,” say scientists
The notion that bottled mineral water is clean and without contamination is being challenged by new research that has identified…
Nanoparticle Laced Wastewater Could Compromise Treatment Plants
Silver’s prodigious ability to kill bacteria hasn’t gone unnoticed by consumer product manufacturers, resulting in a growing number of household…
Water Intake Guidelines Questioned
A meta-study, published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, that looked into the health effects of drinking…
California’s Water Supply Dwindling
Writing in Science Express, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography predict a bleak…
An Exoplanet With Liquid Water?
European astronomers say they have detected a distant Earth-like planet with conditions that might allow liquid water to exist. The…
You Can Lead A Martian Theory to Water, But…
According to researchers at Rutgers University, a geological structure, dubbed “Razorback“, filmed by the Mars rover Opportunity, is unlikely to…
Climate Musings Spark Religious Brouhaha
It must have been a slow day at the lab when researchers at Florida State University (FSU) decided to put…
Road De-Icing Threatens U.S. Aquatic Habitats
It seems that even the most innocuous of human affairs can have a dramatic impact on the environment. Scientists from…