Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered an extraordinary star, SDSS J0715-7334, which may be the most “pristine” object ever ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

The early universe is perhaps one of the biggest mysteries of our time, and while we've come close to unraveling some of those earliest mysteries thanks to advancing tech like the James Webb Space ...

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

The bright outflow jets of J0529 are being fed by a process called Super-Eddington Accretion, where an object exceeds its ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...

The brilliant afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) has enabled astronomers to probe the star-forming environment of a distant galaxy, resulting in the first detection of molecular gas in a ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how ...

A new symposium is coming to Aspen and you might walk out with a different view on how the universe was created than the one you had when you walked in. The origin of the cosmos and other heady topics ...