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

A team of astronomers believe they may have found the most "pristine" star in the universe to date. According to the team, the gas that formed this star may have come from an elusive "population III" ...

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

Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

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

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