Forget Stardust - It Was Star-Ice All Along Carl Sagan famously said that “We’re all made of star-stuff”. But he didn’t elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, many of the molecules in our bodies could only have been created in massive...

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Tiny Crystals Hidden in Cosmic Ice Could Rewrite What We Know About Water and Life Scientists have uncovered a hidden structure inside the Universe’s most common ice—found on comets, moons, and interstellar dust—challenging decades of belief. What was thought to be shapeless,...

Tiny Crystals Hidden in Cosmic Ice Could Rewrite What We Know About Water and Life #Science #Space #Astrobiology #CosmicIce #WaterMysteries

NASA’s SPHEREx on a Cosmic Ice Hunt: Uncovering the Universe’s Hidden Water NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission is on a quest to track down cosmic reservoirs of frozen water and life-essential molecules in deep space. Using a unique 3D spectral approach, it will scan molecular...

NASA’s SPHEREx on a Cosmic Ice Hunt: Uncovering the Universe’s Hidden Water #Science #Space #Astrobiology #NASA #CosmicIce