When it comes to water and Mars, there’s good news and not-so-good news. The good news: there’s water on Mars! The not-so-good news? There’s water on Mars. The Red Planet is very cold; water that ...

Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing and for rocket fuel. This is the conclusion of a team of scientists from ...

If humankind is ever to step foot on Mars, they'll need a bountiful source of oxygen. Crewed missions could of course lug their own oxygen or oxygen-producing materials with them from Earth both to ...

A survey of groundwater samples drawn from aquifers beneath more than 80,000 square miles of Canadian prairie reveals ancient groundwaters harbor not only diverse and active microbial communities, but ...

Have you ever wondered how to make water from scratch? Exoplanets orbing other stars may have cooked up a new recipe.

An optimized mechanochemical process produces multifunctional composite particles that remove pollutants from water.

A mysterious phenomenon first observed in 2013 aboard a vessel in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean appeared so preposterous, it convinced ocean scientist Andrew Sweetman that his monitoring ...

Silicon absorbs both visible and infrared light. It has historically been a top choice for solar cells (also known as photovoltaic cells) and semiconductors, owing to this and other properties, ...

Polymetallic nodules, collected from the ocean floor, sit in simulated seawater in chemist Franz Geiger's laboratory at Northwestern University. An international team of researchers, including a ...

"We never fully imagined the 'magic' that the lunar soil possessed." Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing and ...