Researchers have discovered how water ions escape from Saturn's environment. Water ions find a place to exhaust out of the magnetosphere at a reconnection point -- basically where magnetic fields ...

A new satellite is being launched Thursday morning that will orbit the Earth. The SWOT satellite being launched by NASA will survey nearly all water on Earth’s surface for the first time.

In order to study long-term variations in the magnetic field, Yamazaki and Oda extracted a column of sediment 42 metres long from the sea floor near the equator, and measured the magnetization of over ...

From our vantage point on Earth, the sun appears to be an unchanging orb. But in reality the solar surface is constantly churning, and its belches and sputterings can cause powerful storms that ...

Watch tiny liquid planets ‘orbit’ a knitting needle, and find out why they do. Some days it’s hard to recognize that the world is a wondrous place and life is beautiful. Other days, there ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Japanese startup Pale Blue announced an agreement Jan. 8 with Italian transportation company D-Orbit to conduct two 2025 demonstrations of a tiny water-fueled thruster.

Not even two years into its existence, orbital fuel supply startup Orbit Fab has chalked up a big win — successfully supplying the International Space Station with water, a first for any private ...

An illustration of the EYE nano-satellite in Earth orbit. Illustration: Sony Japanese company Pale Blue pulled off the first test of its experimental water vapor propulsion system, flying a nano ...

Ice on the moon! Water buried in lunar rocks 'that could one day sustain a human colony' was likely preserved by an ancient magnetic field. A new study found evidence of ice in permanently ...