A new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang — ...
“Before the first stars exploded, there was no water in the Universe because there was no oxygen,” said Daniel Whalen, a ...
In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...
Astrophysicists have done a bit of crime scene investigation on what’s almost a reverse murder mystery. They’ve traced ...
Water may have formed less than 200 million years after the Big Bang, suggesting some conditions for life existed far earlier than previously thought.
The findings dramatically push back the timeline for water's cosmic appearance to just 100-200 million years after the ...
The researchers believe that when this supernova exploded, it sent cosmic rays toward Earth for about 100,000 years. These rays could have broken DNA strands, leading to mutations in living organisms.
Water may have first formed 100–200 million years after the Big Bang, according to a modeling paper published in Nature ...
Water is essential for life, but when did it first appear in the universe? A new study suggests that water may have formed ...