The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

A new study suggests that the first water molecules in the universe may have formed far earlier than previously assumed ...

Water, then, actually came from stars. Population III stars—also known as Pop III stars or primordial stars—are the oldest stars in the universe, and have still eluded even our most powerful ...

Now, new research published March 14 in the journal Science Advances suggests that fizzes of barely visible “microlightning,” generated between charged droplets of water mist, could have been ...