For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

Understanding the early universe is a foundational goal in space science. We're driven to understand nature and how it ...

Some stars in the universe grow to 300 times larger our own sun. But how do they get so big, and how do they sustain their ...

For decades, scientists suspected this ion played a critical role in cooling the early cosmos, helping the first gas clouds ...

Hubble reveals star formation secrets in galaxy NGC 2835 using H-alpha detection to map stellar nurseries with surgical ...

In a first, scientists have recreated the formation of the first ever molecules in the universe to learn more about early ...

For decades, astronomers have been working to explore the properties of the first generation of stars in the universe. These stars created new chemical elements, enriched the chemical composition of ...

The size of our universe and the bodies within it is incomprehensible to us lowly humans. The sun has a mass that is more ...

New research suggests that primordial black holes created during the Big Bang could have played a major role in forming the ...

The new observations by Prochaska and his coauthors indicate that star formation in the early universe occurred in environments similar to star-forming regions in the Milky Way. The study focused on a ...

A bright flash of radio waves from 3 billion years after the big bang is illuminating parts of the universe that astronomers ...