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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,...

How did Earth get its water?

ASTRONOMY
Earth'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, according...

Where did Earth’s water come from? Not melted meteorites, according to scientists

ASTRONOMY
Water makes up 71% of Earth's surface, but no one knows how or when such massive quantities of water arrived on Earth. A new study...

Droughts can make water unaffordable for low-income households

ENVIRONMENT
Access to safe, affordable water is a necessity for human health and well-being. But when droughts strike areas that are already water-stressed, water providers...

Earth’s water is 4.5 billion years old, says new study

ASTRONOMY
The origin of Earth's water has been an enduring mystery. There are different hypotheses and theories explaining how the water got here, and lots...
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