A new technological breakthrough may bring a long-held ambition closer to reality: establishing a permanent human base on the Moon. Scientists have developed a technique to extract water, oxygen, ...

New device heats lunar soil with concentrated sunlight to extract water and simultaneously converts CO2 into oxygen.

Recent shifts in Earth's magnetic field have human fingerprints all over them. While it is normal for our planet's magnetic ...

Andrew Wagner is enjoying his family time, just months after surviving what doctors say is a rare and complex medical journey ...

On Earth Day, EPA union workers decry cuts to clean air and water regulations Fifty-five years after the first Earth Day, Environmental Protection Agency employees and advocates call for help as ...

Earth’s landmasses are holding onto a lot less water than they used to — and this loss is not just due to melting ice sheets. Terrestrial water storage, which includes water in underground ...

Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research suggests the planet didn't need the delivery.

Researchers say they discovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought, calling into question widely held beliefs about the origins of water and the planet’s ...

Las Vegas students from the Youth Conservation Council prepare for Earth Day celebration at Springs Preserve featuring interactive booths on water conservation and sustainability.

Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earth r. More specifically, where did the very first water molecules form, and how?

University of Oxford researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analysed a meteorite analogous to the ...