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 ...

Leading geologist Sherwood Lollar and her team initially anticipated discovering tiny pockets of trapped water when investigating the mine ...

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

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

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.

Analysis of Rosetta’s water measurements revealed that 67P contained the highest concentration of deuterium found in any comet—roughly three times higher than in Earth's oceans.

Earth’s soil is drying up. It could be irreversible. The losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans.