1.5 billion-year-old Earth had water everywhere, but not one continent, study suggests What did Earth look like 3.2 billion years ago? New evidence suggests the planet was covered by a vast ocean and had no continents at […]
Findings from NASA’s Juno update Jupiter water mystery NASA’s Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, the Juno results estimate […]
RoboFly: An insect-sized robot that can fly, walk and drift on water surfaces Insect-size robots could have numerous useful applications, for instance, aiding search and rescue (SAR) missions, simplifying the inspection of infrastructures and speeding […]
Water could disappear from Mars faster than expected Mars is losing water more quickly than theory and observations would suggest. The gradual disappearance of water (H2O) occurs in the upper atmosphere of Mars as sunlight […]
How water could be made on the moon: Scientists discover H2O is created in space when solar winds blast meteorites as they crash Hydrogen and oxygen thrown up by the impact react to form water […]
First water detected on potentially ‘habitable’ planet K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the Solar System, or ‘exoplanet’, known to have both water […]