A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.
Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...
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 ...
A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.
A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...
Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...
A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...
HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is ...
The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.