New research shows how cell-like vesicles could form in Titan’s methane lakes, hinting at possible steps toward life - without water.

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

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

This water, now over 4.5 billion years old, has been perpetually renewed through Earth’s water cycle. My research team to explain how water first arrived on Earth.

Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives ...

The very early Earth may not have been as inhospitable as scientists thought, with life perhaps starting more than 4 billion years ago.

A new study has revealed that water from the Earth's surface can penetrate deep into the planet, altering the composition of the outermost region of the metallic liquid core and creating a ...

When our planet first formed, it was extremely dry. Something had to happen to deliver quintillions of gallons of water to Earth.

Scientists proposed another hypothesis: water surfed into our atmosphere on the solar wind, which pushes free-range hydrogen and oxygen molecules from space toward Earth.

Contrary to a popular theory that comets or asteroids delivered water to a dry newborn Earth, the planet itself may have produced its earliest water supply.

The rocks that came together to form Earth might have carried more water than we thought Our planet may have been born wet. When and how Earth got its water is an open question in planetary ...