The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

A new study in Nature Astronomy found that water came into being in the universe earlier than researchers in the field thought to be possible. In fact, study authors believe that water might have been ...

Although it makes up 70 per cent of our planet's surface, scientists still don't all agree on where Earth's water actually ...

"The most likely trigger was an impact on a larger asteroid parent of Ryugu, which fractured the rock and melted buried ice, ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. A team of astrophysicists running numerical simulations ...

Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it does today. Understanding the history of water in the universe is critical to understanding how planets like Earth come to be. Astronomers typically ...

If you’re a scientist studying the surface of Mars, few discoveries could be more exciting than seeing recent gullies apparently formed by running water. And that’s what scientists believed they saw ...

Photograph of impact glass beads under binocular microscope separated from the Chang’e-5 lunar soils. The glass beads vary from black to brown in tens to hundreds of micrometer sizes. (Sen Hu/IGGCAS) ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are ...

Water solidifies into ice when the temperature drops below the freezing point, and turn into vapor gas at 100 Celsius. However, according to the latest findings by researchers at the University of ...