Two zircon crystals showed isotopic evidence of meteoric or fresh water; one was 4 billion years old, while the other was 3.4 billion years old, he said.

A new study of ancient detrital zircons from inland Australia has found the first evidence that the Earth has had fresh water and dry land four billion years ago, much longer than previously ...

Creating rose petal sugar crystals is a beautiful way to combine the beauty of roses with the sweetness of sugar ...

Long thought to be completely disordered, space ice appears to have some crystallized regions, new research suggests.

Low-density amorphous ice was discovered in the 1930s by condensing water vapor onto a metal plate cooled to –166 degrees Fahrenheit (–110 degrees Celsius). High-density amorphous ice was ...

This finding, the authors said, means the recipe for the origins of life existed less than 600 million years after Earth’s formation, long before the dinosaurs or even the earliest known microbial ...