Astronomers from the University of Arizona have uncovered astonishing details about a galaxy that existed when the universe ...

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

Research suggests water molecules formed shortly after the Big Bang, altering theories on early life conditions.

A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question.

A new study suggests that water first appeared in the universe just a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang — ...

Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 ...

SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...

At the big bang, matter was created from the initial energy when it cooled enough for particles to form. But how was space ...

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

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented ...