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 ...

Scientists have discovered an 'ocean planet' that bears an uncanny resemblance to Kevin Costner's 1995 post-apocalyptic action film Waterworld ... 100 light-years from Earth – is completely ...

NASA has been tracking a strange never-before-seen planet through its solar system, which is more than eight times the size ...

Beneath the Earth's surface lies a vast ocean, which is three times larger than all the oceans on the planet. However, it is ...

Earth’s future looks pretty bleak. There are ways to mitigate the most devastating effects of climate change — clean energy offers alternatives to fossil fuels and science may help us save ...

Today, more than 70% of Earth is covered in liquid water. But long before the sea became a familiar feature of our planet’s surface, the water that now fills our oceans, lakes, and streams was ...

making Earth a water world. Earth is (thankfully) in the Goldilocks zone, just the right distance away from the Sun to have bodies of water. If Earth switched positions with Mercury, all of our ...

Artistic illustration of exoplanet GJ 357 d, 65 light years from Earth. "Super-Earths" larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common type of exoplanet discovered in our galaxy, but ...