Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

When you imagine what a rocky, habitable planet looks like, it's easy to picture an alternate Earth where land and oceans exist in an ideal balance. Unfortunately, that's not necessarily how it ...

Earth's land/water balance might be a rarity in the Universe. / Off World / Astronomy / Computer Simulation / Extraterrestrial Water Updated 4.28.17, 1:44 PM EDT by Patrick Caughill ...

The planet's freshest (least saline) sea water is in the eastern parts of Gulf of Finland and in the northern end of Gulf of Bothnia, both part of the Baltic Sea.

One-Third of Exoplanets Could Be Water Worlds With Oceans Hundreds of Miles Deep A new statistical analysis suggests seas hundreds of miles deep cover up to 35 percent of distant worlds ...

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

Water temperatures have surged above 85 degrees in the Mediterranean Sea, where records have been broken every day for weeks.

Earth’s surface is about 70 percent water, but there may be exoplanets that appear completely submerged in ocean, with little land poking through. NASA The planets in our solar system each have ...

The Caspian Sea is the planet’s largest inland sea and its largest lake, an enormous body of water roughly the size of Montana. Its looping coastline stretches more than 4,000 miles and is ...

The Caspian Sea is the planet’s largest inland sea and its largest lake, an enormous body of water roughly the size of Montana. Its looping coastline stretches more than 4,000 miles and is ...