In April 2024, India’s space agency ISRO revealed a discovery that could reshape the future of lunar exploration: the Moon ...

Water frozen in the darkness of space doesn't appear to behave the way we thought. A new research effort using computer simulations and experiments to explore the most common form water takes in the ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.

Space is cold, and research has shown time and time again that space ice is prevalent throughout the universe. However, despite sharing a similar name to the ice we find in glaciers or even in our ...

"What we need is definitive measurements of the ice content." Earth's moon is a treasure trove of resources. Space agencies around the world are planning missions to access and use lunar volatiles, ...

Visual representation of the structure of low-density amorphous ice. Many tiny crystallites (white) are concealed in the amorphous material (blue). “Space ice” contains tiny crystals and is not, as ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...