Tag: water

Tooth size in South American sea lions reflects historical shifts in population abundance

PALEONTOLOGY
A new study published in PeerJ reveals that the teeth of South American sea lions (Otaria byronia) hold valuable clues about past population dynamics. Researchers from the Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos, the Centro para...

Here’s a look at moon landing hits and misses

ASTRONOMY
Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the moon through a NASA-sponsored program. Within 24...

Oldest direct evidence of hot water activity on Mars found

MARS
New Curtin University-led research has uncovered what may be the oldest direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, revealing the planet may...

California water recycling plant gains $26 million to feed Lake Mead

ENVIRONMENT
Toilet water in Los Angeles will soon reduce the strain on Lake Mead, thanks in part to a $26.2 million boost that was announced...

Remember they said Miami would be under water? A preview of the future

EARTH
It's like an unspoken social contract. When people choose to live in South Florida, they must make peace with the possibility that, thanks to...

Study finds fresh water and key conditions for life appeared on Earth a half-billion years earlier than thought

EARTH
We need two ingredients for life to start on a planet: dry land and (fresh) water. Strictly, the water doesn't have to be fresh,...

Four decades of glacial data reveals substantial losses and water worries

OCEANOGRAPHY
An analysis of glacial data spanning four decades has provided valuable insights into the changes taking place in the glaciers of the Pir Panjal...

Water persisted in Mars’ Gale crater for longer than previously thought, study finds

MARS
Billions of years ago, Mars was home to abundant water, and its Gale crater contained a lake. Gradually, the climate changed, drying the red...

Mars has a water reservoir two-miles deep, enough to fill Earth’s Red Sea

MARS
Over a decade and a half ago, the Mars Express embarked on a journey to unravel the secrets of the Martian surface, focusing on the...

Life on Earth uses water as a solvent. What are some other options for life as we don’t know it?

ASTRONOMY
There is a vast menagerie of potentially habitable worlds in the cosmos, which means the universe could be home to a diversity of life...

Astronomers calculate which exoplanets are most likely to have water

ASTRONOMY
Astronomers know of about 60 rocky exoplanets orbiting in the habitable zones of their stars. When they try to determine how habitable these planets...

Discovery of massive undersea water reservoir could explain New Zealand’s mysterious slow earthquakes

EARTHQUAKES
Researchers have discovered a sea’s worth of water locked within the sediment and rock of a lost volcanic plateau that’s now deep in the...

NASA asteroid sample contains life-critical water and carbon

ASTRONOMY
A sample collected from the 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu contains abundant water and carbon, NASA revealed on Wednesday, offering more evidence for the theory that...

How did Earth get its water?

EARTH
Our planet’s water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth’s formative years,...
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