31 August 2020
"Dry" meteorites unlock the origin of Earth's water
...originated in the outer Solar System delivered the vast amounts of water engulfing our planet during a period of bombardment early in ...to avoid being biased by the input of terrestrial water." Their results show that the rocks contain sufficient ...
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' ...
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...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
...of around x1.5 Earth radius tend to be rocky planets, while those with a radius of x2.5 Earth radius are probably water worlds". "This is water, but not as commonly found here on Earth", added Zeng. "Their surface temperature is expected to be in the...
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...
