Found in an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy, the ancient star’s unusual chemistry indicates it formed from gas enriched by a single ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

It wasn't until the first stars began to shine that space turned transparent and light flowed. It's a curious thing, but not ...

Discover 25 strange things happening in our universe right now! From black holes dragging stars to rogue planets and ...

Humans have wondered for centuries whether we are alone in the universe — and a new study suggests that if alien ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered traces of colossal, short‑lived stars that blazed out in the universe’s first few hundred million years, leaving behind only their violent signatures.

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Earlier this year, Euclid—a European telescope tasked to create the largest 3D map of the universe—sent back troves of cosmic data from deep space. Astronomers have since been hard at work picking ...

Not all archaeologists study ancient pottery and arrowheads. If you’re a stellar archeologist, you seek the oldest stars in the universe—those born long before our own sun and planet came into being.

Astronomers have sought to explain the existence of supermassive black holes forming less than a billion years after the Big Bang, a timescale incompatible with standard stellar evolution processes.

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...