Were you able to accumulate all of Earth’s water – ice, liquid and vapour, plus all the water physically and chemically ...

Imagining every drop of Earth’s water hurled into the Sun sounds like a last-ditch cosmic fire extinguisher, but the physics ...

A view of Earth from the Space Shuttle Discovery shows late afternoon sun on the Andes Mountains, with glare and heavy cloud illumination. One of the more counterintuitive explanations for how Earth ...

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

A spinning globe model visualizing how Earth’s geographic poles coincide with an imaginary axis around which the planet rotates. In the last 200 years humanity has constructed over 6,800 dams for ...

Earth should have lost its water long before life ever had a chance to appear. Bathed in a young Sun’s fierce radiation and wrapped in a global magma ocean, the planet’s surface looked more like a ...

Early Earth got much of its water from relentless bombardment by water-rich asteroids and icy comets. Now, scientists say the young planet had a way to hold onto much more of that water than once ...

In recent years, science has unveiled some astonishing secrets—from what lurks inside black holes to the discovery of a vast new “8th continent.” Even closer to home, researchers have uncovered a ...