The glass beads were found to hold a water content of up to about 2,000 parts per million by weight. Hu said he believes that such impact glass beads are a common part of lunar soils, found ...

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.

The impact glass acts like a sponge that absorbs traces of water from the solar wind, retaining it like a distributed reservoir. Thus, some water evaporates daily as the solar wind continuously ...

Rep. Bob Brady (D-Pa.) drinks from a glass of water that Pope Francis used during his speech to Congress, which he took back to his office afterward on Sept. 24. Brady, who is Roman Catholic ...