We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

It is now thought that water first formed in space only 100 to 200 million years after the Big Bang—billions of years earlier than previous estimates. Simulations showed that oxygen created by ...

A new study in Nature Astronomy found that water came into being in the universe earlier than researchers in the field thought to be possible. In fact, study authors believe that water might have been ...

Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it does today. Understanding the history of water in the universe is critical to understanding how planets like Earth come to be. Astronomers typically ...

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It’s one of those scientific questions that’s so simple, so fundamental, it’s hard to believe we didn’t have an answer—until now: What does water look like when it’s forming? From oceans to puddles, ...

You might assume that there has always been water on Earth — that water was there from the very beginning when our planet formed. But scientists increasingly think that water on Earth may have ...

Water solidifies into ice when the temperature drops below the freezing point, and turn into vapor gas at 100 Celsius. However, according to the latest findings by researchers at the University of ...

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The question of where Earth's large amount of water came from may find its answer by looking to the Moon. According to research by planetologists at the University of Münster, a collision with a ...

There's even more water on the moon than we previously thought, according to new analysis of tiny glass beads left over from ancient volcanic eruptions. The naturally occurring beads were collected in ...