Serendipitous events show rare events in distant quasar

According to Murphy’s laws, all great discoveries happen by mistake. This is not the case here, but scientists had the opportunity to observe something they weren’t expecting at all. Astronomers at the University of California-Santa Cruz had the fortune of witnessing the birth of a young galaxy. They were the first to observe the onset of [...]

Dusty Winds and the Seeded Planets

There is still some debate around how life appeared here and it is hard to find proof which is going to be undoubtable. But the findings from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that space dust — the same stuff that makes up living creatures and planets — was manufactured in large quantities in the winds [...]