The high-energy impact about 100 million years after our Solar System formed, resulted in the two colliding planetary objects completely merging to create...
An international team of scientists has developed a numerical 3D model for the melting of single snowflakes. A better understanding of how snow melts can...
An international team of scientists from the United States and Canada has discovered the first direct evidence that aqueous pockets may exist as far as...
An international team of researchers, led by Arizona State University chemist C. Austen Angell and University of Amsterdam’s Dr. Sander Woutersen, has...
Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a Saturn-mass exoplanet known as WASP-39b. By combining...
A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience indicates that water may be more prevalent on the lunar surface than previously thought.
If the...
After many years of experiments, physicists have observed that under extreme temperatures and pressures, water takes on a new form called superionic ice....
Martian dust storms play a role in the ongoing process of gas escaping from the top of the planet’s atmosphere, according to a new study using observations...
New images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal never-before-observed details...
A team of researchers from the United States, UK and Japan has found liquid water and a mix of complex organic compounds in 4.5-billion-year-old salt crystals...
According to a new study published in the journal Nature, the Sun may not have evaporated away all of the Martian surface water after all; instead, Mars’...
WASP-18b, a hot-Jupiter exoplanet located approximately 325 light-years from Earth, has a stratosphere that’s loaded with carbon monoxide, but has no...
Professor David McKenzie from the University of Sydney and his PhD student Enyi Guo have demonstrated quantum tunneling in water — a quantum phenomenon...
Analysis of data from ESA’s Rosetta mission continues to yield insights into the nature of cometary ice and organics.
Artist’s impression of a comet....
About 3.5 billion years ago volcanic activity on Earth’s only permanent natural satellite produced an atmosphere 1.5 times thicker than is currently...
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has identified what appear to be ancient hydrothermal deposits in the Eridania region in the southern highlands...
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered evidence of significant hydration near the Martian equator.
Mars Odyssey spotted possible water ice in...
Using data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, researchers have found new evidence for the occurrence of ground ice on Vesta, the second largest asteroid of...
A new study led by Brown University planetary researchers adds three new large members to the list of water ice-filled craters near Mercury’s north pole...
