Earth is unique in the Solar System for having an abundant supply of water, making it the only known planet with vast oceans, ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river ...

In 2016, a remarkable discovery took place deep beneath the surface of a Canadian mine, where Professor Barbara Sherwood ...

But most of Earth's water is deep underground: between one and ten times the volume of the oceans are contained in the mantle. At the surface of the Earth, "water" means two hydrogens for each ...

Earth has a lot of water, but where did it come from? Water covers about 70 percent of Earth’s surface, much more than that of any other rocky planet in our solar system. Scientists have several ...

If Earth didn’t have water, it wouldn’t have life, and the universe would be sorely lacking in dank memes.But exactly how water sprung up on this planet has always been a perpetual mystery ...

The source of Earth’s water has been a long-standing mystery; Meech herself has been trying to solve it for at least 20 years. Most of that search has focused on sorting out the various isotopes ...

Over the past 200 years, humans have stored hundreds of billions of liters of water in thousands of dams around the world. In ...

Liquid water covers some 70 percent of Earth’s surface, making the planet unique in the solar system. But where that water came from has been a bit of a puzzle.

Researchers studied the water content in the rocks from the lunar highlands. The analysis suggests that water in ancient lunar rocks and water on Earth may have a common origin.