In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...

“Before the first stars exploded, there was no water in the Universe because there was no oxygen,” said Daniel Whalen, a ...

Astrophysicists have done a bit of crime scene investigation on what’s almost a reverse murder mystery. They’ve traced ...

These massive stellar explosions, used as “standard candles” in cosmology, helped astronomers uncover the accelerating ...

Water may have formed less than 200 million years after the Big Bang, suggesting some conditions for life existed far earlier than previously thought.

As that gaseous oxygen cooled and mixed with the surrounding hydrogen left by supernovae, water could have formed in a ...

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, ...

Simulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...

Water might have formed much earlier than previously thought. Computer simulations show supernovae produced significant ...

The findings dramatically push back the timeline for water's cosmic appearance to just 100-200 million years after the ...

Water may have first formed 100–200 million years after the Big Bang, according to a modeling paper published in Nature ...