“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 ...

The mission—the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer; or SPHEREx—will ...

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.

A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins.

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

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 ...

A curious connection between an ancient supernova and virus diversification in one of Earth's biggest lakes means that crazy ...

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