Water Formed Much Sooner After the Big Bang Than We Thought, Scientists Say—Which May Mean Life Did, Too
Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.
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Life may have formed billions of years earlier than previously thought
When scientists look to the skies for clues about life's origins, water is one of the first things they seek. Life, as it's ...
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Water Existed in the Universe Billions of Years Earlier Than Thought, Astronomers Say
Supernovae were necessary for creating the first heavy elements, including oxygen ... which in some cases were enriched with primordial water to mass fractions that were only a factor of a ...
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Water in the universe may have formed closer to the Big Bang than previously thought
We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...
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Life May Have Emerged a Cosmic Eyeblink after the Big Bang
Dense clumps of primordial hydrogen and helium left ... the early arrival of life’s main ingredients—water and heavier elements capable of forming complex molecules—isn’t so astonishing.
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Water in the Universe: an origin much older than expected?
Water, an essential element for life as we know it, may have formed much earlier in the Universe than previously thought. A recent study explores how the first water molecules could have appeared in ...