26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
... previous studies. "We find that it doesn't matter what time of day or which latitude we look at, the signal indicating water always seems to be present," said Joshua Bandfield, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder...
27 July 2018
A pool of liquid water found under Mars' south pole
... need to be at least several tens of centimetres thick. “This subsurface anomaly on Mars has radar properties matching water or water-rich sediments,” says Roberto Orosei, principal investigator of the MARSIS experiment and lead author of the paper...
09 November 2018
Leftover gas from the Sun's birth created Earth's water
...it packs in an extra neutron in its nucleus. This heavy hydrogen is called deuterium and scientists distinguish one body of water from another by measuring something called the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio I.e how much deuterium there is compared with...
11 March 2019
LAMP shows migrating water molecules on the Moon
...investigator of the LAMP instrument from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. Finding enough freely available water on the lunar surface would be advantageous to any future Moon missions as it means it would not have to be carried from...
17 March 2021
Like Venus, ancient water on Mars is trapped in its crust, new study says
...of ancient hydrated minerals whose formation certainly decreased water availability over time," says co-author Bethany Ehlmann...Keck Institute for Space Studies. This vast retention of ancient water, which could equate to as much as several oceans' ...
12 May 2021
Scientists discover liquid water inside a meteorite
...that asteroids rich in small, volatile molecules like water and carbon dioxide formed beyond Jupiter’s orbit before...through interactions with the gas giant. The discovery of water inclusions within a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite from the early ...
