"The existence of any vesicles on Titan would demonstrate an increase in order and complexity, which are conditions necessary ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

Scientists had assumed that the ice in space was purely amorphous, but new experiments show it can have a partly crystalline ...

Water frozen in the depths of space has long been considered a shapeless, frozen fog. For decades, scientists believed it ...

High-energy electrons from Earth’s magnetic field act like solar wind protons to help form water on the Moon. The Moon interacts with Earth’s magnetic field, a key piece in understanding water ...

Essentially, the amino acids need to get "dry" in order to form a protein. Considering that Earth before life was covered in water, this was a big problem for making the proteins essential to life.

'This is the first demonstration that primordial molecules, simple amino acids, spontaneously form peptides, the building blocks of life, in droplets of pure water.' ...

Astronomers have spotted water that looks remarkably similar to our own in orbit around a young star 1,300 light years from Earth.

Earth has a limited amount of water, experts say. Water scarcity occurs when clean freshwater becomes less accessible in specific places.

Researchers have found that water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a similar molecular signature to the water in Earth's oceans. Contradicting some recent results, this finding reopens the ...

Scientists have discovered where Earth's water comes from, and say that it wasn't brought to the planet by asteroid impacts after all.

Chemical reactions on the early Earth may have formed its ocean Conditions that favor water may be common in the formation of rocky planets.