"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Venus has long been called a dry, hellish planet veiled in clouds of liquid acid. But new study of old spacecraft data tells ...

A discovery in V883 Orionis' planet-forming disk suggests Earth's water could have come from ancient interstellar ice that predates the sun.

Astronomers have spotted heavy water in the disk of a young star for the first time. What’s wild is that this water seems to ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are rich with clues about how worlds like Earth come to be. Until now, scientists ...

The first-ever detection of this rare form of water in a protoplanetary disk suggests that what we drink might have been ...

Reanalysis of NASA's Pioneer Venus mission data reveals that Earth's twin contains 62% water in hydrated compounds.