Water is essential to life, yet its true origin on Earth still stirs debate. Scientists have long wondered whether it came ...

While hydrogels are known for their ability to soak up and hold large amounts of water, they often hold the water too rigidly ...

Scientists have discovered a colossal water reservoir in space, containing as much water as 100 trillion times all the oceans ...

Around the globe, hotter temperatures stoked by climate change are increasing the odds of both severe drought and heavier ...

FARGO — Humidity is water vapor, which is a clear gas. If you can see water hanging in the air, it must be made of water droplets or ice crystals and so is not water vapor. Steam or mist is made ...

When Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an underwater volcano near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean, erupted in 2022, scientists ...

For the first time, scientists have captured detailed measurements of water vapor high above Greenland’s vast ice sheet.

Drone-based data on Greenland’s water vapor is improving climate models and understanding of future ice loss. For the first ...

Air is 78 percent nitrogen and just under 21 percent oxygen, and the rest is water vapor, CO2, and small concentrations of noble gases such as neon and argon. Now some people prefer filling their ...