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

B, seen around 800 million years after the universe was formed, is the first we have seen consistent with being composed of ...

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

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

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

The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...

Understanding the early universe is a foundational goal in space science. We're driven to understand nature and how it evolved from a super-heated plasma after the Big Bang to the structured cosmos we ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

Astronomers observed the fading light of supernova SN 2025kg, which followed the fast X-ray transient (FXT) named EP 250108a.

Scientists estimate over 100 billion galaxies in the universe, each unique in shape and size, revealing the vastness of cosmic creation.