Researchers have unveiled ice XXI, a new form of ice that's solid at room temperatures when subjected to immense pressure.

In the beginning, when planets were newborn, they glowed like furnaces, vast oceans of molten rock wrapped in heavy blankets ...

A new study suggests mysterious water worlds may be manufacturing their own oceans through chemical reactions deep within ...

The recent identification of a novel molecular architecture of water, stabilized at a temperature close to our own but under ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

The diamond anvil cell used in this experiment. (A) Symmetric Diamond Anvil Cell, (B) Schematic diagram of a diamond anvil. The orange circle is the area corresponding to (C, D) (C) Image of the top ...

In a diamond-anvil cell, two gem quality single crystal diamonds are shaped into anvils (flat top in the photo) and then faced with each other. Samples are loaded between the culets (flat surfaces), ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that ...

Picture this: ice that doesn’t melt even when it’s warm. That’s not science fiction anymore — it’s now a science fact.

A research team led by Prof. Liu Xiaodi from the Hefei Institute of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...