Mars is looking more and more like a place for NASA to find the first signs of alien life. Scientists discovered evidence of ...

It is so easy to forget that geological processes of Earth are ongoing, always working at the same time, and surprising us. Recent scientific discoveries are revealing two extraordinary phenomena that ...

"Usually any water below the surface would be sea water, but we now have evidence there is fresh water under the sea bed and we want to figure out how it got there," he said. "We have some ideas ...

In the US, wetlands protection largely falls under the Clean Water Act of 1972 ... with respect to the timing and duration of surface water inundation as well as seasonal patterns of inundation.

The latest findings corroborate a study published last year, which similarly found that vast quantities of water may still exist under Mars' surface. Using another analysis of seismic data from ...

It can be found from shallow ground to several miles below the surface, and even farther down ... Some U.S. cities pipe geothermal hot water under roads and sidewalks to melt snow.

This giant deposit might be hiding a frozen ocean under layers of ancient Martian dust. If that ice melted, scientists say, it could flood the entire surface of Mars in water nearly nine feet deep.

In the Sackett decision, the court ruled that wetlands are protected by the Clean Water Act only when they have a “continuous ...

This giant deposit might be hiding a frozen ocean under layers of ancient Martian dust. If that ice melted, scientists say, it could flood the entire surface of Mars in water nearly nine feet deep.