01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
...Just last year, Mars Express found a pool of liquid water buried under the martian south pole. Now new evidence... author Francesco Salese of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. “We traced this water in our study, as its scale and role is a matter of...
19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
... inside the habitable zone. LHS1140b’s characteristics and location within a region where it could potentially have liquid water on its surface, flagged it up as a key target for further astrobiological research. Taking a keen interest in the system...
02 November 2020
Rare meteorite reveals evidence of water on Mars 4.4 billion years ago
...had surface liquid water at least 3.7 billion years ago during the Noachian epoch. But whether that water came from... of the planet possible, add the team in their paper. If water was available on Mars earlier than thought, it suggests it could be...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
... know it to exist. The other two necessary ingredients are liquid water and the right chemical ingredients, primarily; carbon, hydrogen, oxygen...that nearly 98 percent of the gas in the plume is water, about 1 percent is hydrogen and the rest is a ...
14 May 2018
Best evidence yet for plumes on Europa
.... The combination of the moon’s geological, compositional and induced magnetic field measurements all indicate that a salty, liquid water ocean spanning at least 100 kilometres in depth is sloshing about beneath its icy crust. Taking a peek at what...
12 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx discovers ingredients for water on Bennu
... larger asteroid it broke apart from eons ago had liquid water present on it at some point. Recently analysed data...that together form OH. Although not quite the formula for water (that requires an additional hydrogen atom), these hydroxyls are ...
