The prospect of an ancient waterworld Earth also offers a new perspective on another intriguing question: where the planet's earliest forms of life appeared and how they evolved, the researchers ...

1995′s hit film “Waterworld” depicted a post-apocalyptic Earth that was completely flooded following the melting of the planet’s ice caps. For astronomers, it begs the question ...

Scientists announced this week the discovery of a nearby "super-Earth" that could potentially support life, calling it a "water world." Scientists have long theorized the possibility of other ...

Now there's another new class of extrasolar planet to add to the list - the waterworld ... has a diameter approximately 2.7 times that of Earth, but weighs almost seven times as much as Earth ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of alien planet — a steamy waterworld that is larger than Earth but smaller than Uranus. The standard-bearer for this new class of exoplanet is called GJ ...

Yes: "Waterworld." The research, published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, examined ancient samples of sea floor found in Australia and found chemical clues that Earth used to be a com ...

“The history of life on Earth tracks available niches,” geobiologist Boswell Wing, the co-author of the study, explained. “If you've got a waterworld, a world covered by ocean, then dry ...

“Waterworld, The Musical” is a dizzy ... as a reluctant hero afloat in a seemingly endless sea produced when Earth’s polar icecaps melted. It was one of the most ambitious, expensive ...