One idea, the Mars Ocean Hypothesis, suggests that Mars not only had some liquid water, but a lot of it. But the new study's co-author Kun Wang says his team's finding, which was published this ...

Trillions of pounds of water may be strewn across the moon, trapped in tiny glass beads that could have formed when asteroids struck the lunar surface, according to a new study.

Water has been found on the surface of two asteroids for the first time, scientists said in a new paper. Two silicate-rich asteroids were detected by the retired Stratospheric Observatory for ...

What they found are some big changes: almost 90,000 km 2 of surface water—roughly equivalent to the area of Lake Superior—have completely vanished, mostly from the Middle East and Central Asia.

The water drops are suspended on these ultra-microscopic wax needles, and that keeps it from wetting the surface. Next, we looked at the underside of this leaf with the microscope.

Scientists have discovered a watery landscape in Earth's lower mantle, over 400 miles beneath the surface. Scientists from the Gemological Institute of America, looking into the Earth's deep water ...

Asteroid-sample return shows water on its rocks’ surface A cubic meter of asteroid dust may have as much as 20 liters of water. John Timmer – Nov 30, 2021 2:25 PM | 55 ...

When liquid water encounters a cold surface, ice can quickly form through the process of nucleation whereby individual water molecules coalesce bond with each other to form ever larger solid crystals.

Surface runoff is water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface, and is a major component of the water cycle. Runoff that occurs on surfaces before reaching a ...