A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Beautiful images of lake stars formed on a pond in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. We will dive deeper into what these star-like patterns are and how they form.

Because of its origin, we've generally thought that oxygen (and correspondingly water) grew in abundance over time. From the first stars to the present day, each generation cast oxygen into space ...

Gaseous water has been detected in the planet-forming disk surrounding the star V883 Orionis (ALMA) using the Atacama Large ...

But in the new study, uploaded Jan. 9 to the preprint server arXiv, researchers simulated the explosive deaths of giant, short-lived early stars — which each had a mass equivalent to around 200 ...