A weird animated graphic depicting a distorted, lumpy Earth has gone viral over the ‘Net in the past few days, claiming that this is what the Earth looks like “without water.” There’s only ...

Earth is covered in water. It’s the big blue marble, and oceans dominate its surface… but what if they didn’t? What if Earth’s oceans were 100, 1,000, or even 10,000 meters lower than they ...

New research suggests ancient Earth was a water world, with little to no land in sight. And that could have major implications for the origin and evolution of life. While modern Earth’s surface ...

This is not a simple question: it was long thought that Earth formed dry — without water, because of its proximity to the Sun and the high temperatures when the solar system formed.

Draining the Oceans: Earth Without Water. Posted: February 15, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 "An epic exploration of possibilities. What If is a Webby Award-winning science web series that ...

Katy Carl’s debut novel, As Earth Without Water, presents a trinity of epigraphs before its story begins.The first is from Psalm 142: “I stretched forth my hands to Thee: my soul is as earth ...

While water represents less than 0.5% of the mass of the Earth, it is key to the evolution of the planet itself and to life at its surface. In the early solar system, there was a lot of hydrogen, ...

Water arrived on Earth at exactly the same time that the moon was created over 4 billion years ago, according to a new study. This phenomenon is thought to have happened when an “ancient planet ...

Earth simply wouldn’t be the home planet we know and love without water—after all, 70 percent of our planet’s surface is covered with the life-supporting liquid.

Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a growing water disaster that will wreak havoc on economies, food production and lives ...