Scientists now believe highly magnetised neutron stars, or magnetars, are a significant source of gold and other heavy ...

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

A handful of extremely massive stars, each heavier than 1,000 Suns, may have sculpted the chemistry of the oldest star ...

Astronomers working hard at NASA have found a star that could be older than the universe. But is that even possibile? This ...

The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

The night sky often feels calm, yet the early universe tells a very different story. A newly studied ancient galaxy, seen as ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest star clusters and galaxies. These short-lived giants not only forged the ...

Astronomers have chased the first stars for decades, squinting at the early universe for any hint of their brief, brilliant ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, thesehalos may then have collapsed, creating the first black holes, boson ...

Astronomers may have uncovered the origins of the mysterious “little red dots,” some of the strangest galaxies seen in the early universe. These tiny but brilliant objects, discovered by the James ...