In a triumph for NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, new findings suggest that tiny bits of rock retrieved from the asteroid Bennu hold lingering traces of ancient salt water. The discovery ...

Water is a unique compound that is essential to life on Earth. In the pedosphere ... by this property Expansion upon freezing Ordering molecules in crystalline solid results in more void space ...

The little spheres represent water molecules. Molecules are in constant motion. The attractions water molecules have for each other keep them close together. They can move past each other, but their ...

Water pollution is one of the growing challenges of modern life ... real-world water systems, like rivers or wastewater. It uses a natural effect called hydrophobic binding, where contaminant ...

Evidence is mounting about what may be a wealth of organic molecules ... with liquid water on its surface in the distant past. Scientists suspect that microbial life once could have lived ...

The molecules in cold water move slowly and are close together. As the water is heated, the molecules move faster and a little further apart. The circles represent water molecules. The molecules are ...