Water

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Water is everywhere, seriously, making up more than 70 percent of the planet's surface. And you can't survive without it. To keep up with all things H2O, check out the most interesting discoveries related to water, from the stuff you drink, to the droplets that make up the planet's oceans, to water itself in all its glorious strangeness.

Related Topics: Ocean, Global Warming, Amphibians, Fish

Latest about water

An illustration of NASA's Cassini orbiter soaring through a giant vapor jet over the moon Enceladus

James Webb telescope discovers gargantuan geyser on Saturn's moon, blasting water hundreds of miles into space

By Isobel Whitcomb published

The James Webb Space Telescope caught Saturn's icy moon Enceladus spraying a 'huge plume' of watery vapor far into space — and that plume may contain chemical ingredients for life.

An artist's impression of a blue comet with water vapor pouring off of it

James Webb telescope spots ancient water frozen in a near-Earth comet — and scientists want to collect it

By Joanna Thompson published

A new analysis of a comet in the asteroid belt reveals frozen water from the early solar system, hinting at the origins of water on Earth.

A close up picture of two piranha fish with their sharp triangular teeth exposed.

Piranhas swarm 8 tourists at Brazilian resort, leaving them with bloody legs and feet

By Sascha Pare published

Piranhas had become accustomed to the free food discarded in the river. Once first blood was drawn, the school attacked en masse.

Smoke rises from an industrial building during sunset

Pollution facts and types of pollution

By Alina Bradford last updated

The different ways that the environment gets contaminated.

A man in a blue coat and orange helmet explored a narrow, dark cave-like aqueduct with his flashlight.

Vast subterranean aqueduct in Naples once 'served elite Roman villas'

By Kristina Killgrove published

Once played in by local children, a vast tunnel that goes through a hill in Naples, Italy, is actually a Roman aqueduct, archaeologists say.

Light-toned fracture halos as seen crosscutting the bedrock extend into the subsurface. These fracture networks would have served as safe havens from harsh surface conditions in a modern period on Mars.

Mars crater is 'chock-full' of opal gemstones, hinting at widespread water and possible microbial life

By JoAnna Wendel published

Mysterious "halos" of rock surrounding cracks in a Martian crater may be made of water-rich opal gemstones, a new study suggests.

The meteorite landed in a driveway in the town of Winchcombe in February 2021

4.6 billion-year-old meteorite may reveal the origin of Earth's water

By Ben Turner published

The rock is 4.6 billion years old, meaning it was around at the beginning of the solar system

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Trees Flirt with Death During Dry Periods

By Sara Goudarzi last updated

Tree growth in temperate forests is driven by availability of water and not by temperature as previously thought.

Water bears - tardigrades

8 Reasons Why We Love Tardigrades

By Mindy Weisberger last updated

Whether you know them as water bears or moss piglets, tardigrades are microscopic bundles of awesomeness.

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Key to Tardigrades' 'Superpowers' Identified in Their DNA

By Mindy Weisberger last updated

A tardigrade's unique genetic makeup fuels the creature's remarkable resuscitation superpowers.

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