12 May 2021
Scientists discover liquid water inside a meteorite
...that asteroids rich in small, volatile molecules like water and carbon dioxide formed beyond Jupiter’s orbit before...through interactions with the gas giant. The discovery of water inclusions within a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite from the early ...
01 September 2017
TRAPPIST-1 planets could contain substantial amounts of water
... break the bonds of molecules into their constituent atoms. This is a process known as photodissociation and in the case of a water molecule, once it is broken up, the very light hydrogen atoms can escape the exoplanets’ atmosphere. Instruments such...
11 December 2019
Water abundance lower than expected on exoplanets
... the universe after hydrogen and helium. This means that water, which consists of an oxygen atom along with two ... needed to ascertain just how widespread this trend of low water abundance appears to be and how different elements can be differently...
16 November 2020
Venus didn't lose water to space, new study says
...to earlier studies, only a small part of the historical water content on Venus has been lost to space over the ... reason. Knowing if Venus (and Mars) once vast quantities of water on their surfaces, not only would it help our understanding of planetary...
12 February 2021
Water vapour spotted escaping from Mars' atmosphere
... to analyse light passing through the Martian atmosphere. "This fantastic instrument is giving us a never-before-seen view of water isotopes in the atmosphere of Mars as a function of both time and location," says Manish Patel, one of two scientists...
22 December 2016
Faint signals of water in the nearby Universe can now be detected by ALMA
...The way in which ALMA's Band 5 receivers will measure water reduces some of these difficulties thus enabling ALMA to look ... full ALMA array will allow us to make detailed studies of water in a wide range of objects including forming and evolved stars,...
