New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

The most ‘pristine’ star in the universe discovered by astronomers - Red giant star J0715-7334 is 20,000 times purer than the ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope, astrophysicists have spotted what they say is compelling evidence of ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...