Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

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Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

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 ...

You might assume that there has always been water on Earth — that water was there from the very beginning when our planet formed. But scientists increasingly think that water on Earth may have ...

A NASA-led team will present its Mars gully findings at the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences annual meeting in Cambridge, England, Sept. 5, 2005. “The gullies may be ...