Understanding exoplanet evolution could help solve the mystery of the 'hot Neptune desert.' As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests ...

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These atoms first formed shortly after the Big Bang. Earth picked up this “primordial” helium as the planet formed. Its loss from magma suggests that the planet has a deep reservoir of ...

The map makes use of 130 million spectra from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to reveal properties of the dust, which clouds the cosmos between our world and just about everything else ...

In myths, Cronus, also known as Cronos or Kronos, is depicted as the son of the primordial Gaia and Uranus who overthrew his father to take power as the king of the gods. In fear that the same ...

As Eubanks told Universe Today via email: "Well, I personally doubt it's primordial. I suspect it is a piece of an asteroid, probably knocked out of an orbit at ~4.18 AU (its aphelion).

Primordial black holes might be an explanation for dark matter — the invisible substance that accounts for most of the matter in the universe — but so far, searches for them have turned up empty.

Observed by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the galaxy—designated JADES-GS-z14-0—is unexpectedly bright and chemically complex for an object from this primordial era, the researchers said.

Observed by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the galaxy -- designated JADES-GS-z14-0 -- is unexpectedly bright and chemically complex for an object from this primordial era, the researchers said.

This important study reports single-nucleus multiomics-based profiling of transcriptome and chromatin accessibility of mouse XX and XY primordial germ cells (PGCs). The main conclusions of this study, ...