{"id":217404,"date":"2025-07-08T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ice-in-space-could-do-something-we-thought-was-impossible"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:04:17","slug":"ice-in-space-could-do-something-we-thought-was-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ice-in-space-could-do-something-we-thought-was-impossible","title":{"rendered":"Ice in Space Could Do Something We Thought Was Impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ice-in-space-could-do-something-we-thought-was-impossible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water frozen in the darkness of space doesn\u2019t appear to behave the way we thought.<\/p>\n<p>A new research effort using computer simulations and experiments to explore the most common form water takes in the Universe has found that it is not as structureless as scientists had thought. Rather, repeating patterns \u2013 otherwise known as crystals \u2013 just a few nanometers across are likely embedded in an otherwise frozen jumble of molecules.<\/p>\n<p>Since scientists had thought space too cold for ice crystals to have the energy to form, this discovery comes as a big surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water frozen in the darkness of space doesn\u2019t appear to behave the way we thought. A new research effort using computer simulations and experiments to explore the most common form water takes in the Universe has found that it is not as structureless as scientists had thought. Rather, repeating patterns \u2013 otherwise known as crystals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}