The early universe, fresh from the Big Bang, was a hot, dense soup of simple elements: hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of ...

Water is an essential part of life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere – and now it we know it may have formed not long after ...

This discovery suggests water could have shaped the first galaxies and planets, changing how we understand the universe’s ...

Water, a fundamental ingredient for life, may have appeared far earlier in the universe than previously thought. New research ...

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

H3+, known as "the molecule that made the universe," plays a crucial role in interstellar chemistry and the birth of stars.

You may think that time started 13.8 billion years ago at the birth of the universe, but physicists with alternative definitions of time have other ideas ...

Water’s hydrogen originated from the Big Bang, making it one of the universe’s earliest molecules. 'Cancer risk, brain damage, too weak to walk': Sunita Williams’ body 'wrecked' after 9 ...

From helping catalyze interstellar reactions and fueling the birth of ... in the universe. "H 3 + is a small molecule that might not be as important to us on Earth as water or proteins, but ...

scientists can use the data to learn about the physics that governed the universe less than a second after its birth. SPHEREx also will scour the Milky Way for signs of water. Of course ...