An international group of astrophysicists has discovered a new method to estimate the cosmic microwave background temperature of the young Universe only 880 million years after the Big Bang. It is the ...

Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery—the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe.

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Researchers have developed a simple laboratory model using a water tornado to simulate the dynamics of gas and dust in planet-forming discs. Experts have long tried to study the swirling clouds of gas ...

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 ...

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Michael Allen peers into the depths of natural disasters, as he speaks to the physicists who are using muon tomography to get a better understanding of volcanoes and tropical cyclones Scientists and ...

The Cosmic Microwave Background (left) was released 380,000 years after the Big Bang, and it acts as a background to all galaxies in the Universe. The starburst galaxy HFLS3 is embedded in a large ...