Astronomers have for the first time detected water vapour on a dwarf planet located in the main aste...

Fresh water suitable for life flowed on the surface of the Red Planet four billion years ago, accord...

A US space agency rover tooling around on the dry surface of Mars has for the first time uncovered d...

In an encouraging sign of life beyond earth, NASA scientists have found faint signatures of water in...

Presence of molecular hydrogen, carbon dioxide and water on Mars may have created a greenhouse effec...

Planets rich in carbon, including so-called diamond planets, may lack oceans, according to a NASA st...

Scientists have found that Earth acquired most of its water from asteroid impacts nearly 4.6 billion...

The christening of the ship bearing the name of the late Adm Elmo "Bud" Zumwalt was canceled a week ...

In a first, astronomers have found a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our Solar System with b...