The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...

We think of Earth as the “blue” planet. More than 70 percent of it is covered by water. But 97 percent of this water is in the oceans and 2 percent is locked in glaciers and ice caps ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass ...

Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

From rivers to dams to hundreds of miles of aqueducts, moving water around California takes a massive system, engineered over the better part of a century. Now, with a new executive order ...