Engineers have successfully shown how water and oxygen can be extracted by cooking up lunar soil, in order to support future Moon bases.

A simple cooling system driven by the capture of passive solar energy could provide low-cost food refrigeration and living space cooling.

Algorithm makes polarized imaging more practical for imaging through water, which could benefit rescues and other underwater applications.

Water is essential for life on Earth and other planets, and scientists have found ample evidence of water in Mars’ early history.

Texas A&M researchers have a novel idea to capture waste from passenger vehicle exhaust for use in urban greenhouses for food production.

You can’t squeeze water from a rock. But tree roots can —and they’re doing it more frequently than scientists previously thought.

Scientists have long believed that temperature, especially freezing cold, limits diversity of plant species.

Engineers at the University of Illinois have created a solar-powered electrochemical reaction that not only uses wastewater to make ammonia

Researchers have created a soft and stretchable device that converts movement into electricity and can work in wet environments.

Water is the most abundant yet least understood liquid in nature and exhibits many strange behaviors that scientists struggle to explain.

When we search for life out there in the galaxy, we base our efforts on what we know. So far, we know only one planet that has yielded life.

Scientists are planning to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles to penetrate clouds and generate rainfall using electrical charges

In addition to providing vitamin D, helping flowers grow and creating the perfect excuse to head to the beach, sunlight also breaks down

Turning cities’ wastewater into usable freshwater is an environmental win. Engineering the system to be more energy efficient is better

New system developed by MIT could reduce water needs at power plants potentially helping alleviate water shortages in those areas.

A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a water-carrying iron mineral and the fact that these rocks are extremely...

For years scientists have been debating what might lay under the Martian planet’s south polar cap and initially attributed it to water.

Ural Federal University (UrFU) power engineers have developed a new desalination technology. It will significantly reduce the cost.

For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

A miniature device that scans deep below ground is being developed to identify ice deposits and hollow lava tubes on the moon for settlement