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Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds. For ...

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Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to hear from Kelsey Johnson, professor of astronomy and director of the Echols Scholars Program at the University of Virginia, at ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It is now thought that water first formed in space only 100 to 200 million years after the Big ...

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The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...