As the supernovae expand and cool, oxygen from the ejecta reacts with H and H 2 to form water in the halo, and H 2 also forms on dust grains,” study authors explained in a ne ...

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth.

The Cherenkov Telescope Array just got a major boost for distributing its data, a development that will expedite scientific ...

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

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

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

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows one of the most famous and beautiful objects in the night sky.

Shroud is an utterly gripping story of alien encounter and survival from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke ...

The most powerful cosmic rays in the universe currently have no explanation. New research suggests that exotic, ...

A supernova explosion about 2.5 million years ago sent cosmic rays to Earth. Around that time, virus diversity in Lake ...

About 2.5 million years ago, the viruses infecting fish in Lake Tanganyika underwent a mysterious explosion in diversity. It ...