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

The Methuselah Star, also known asHD 140283, has long been a subject of fascination among astronomers. Its age, initially estimated to be older than the universe itself, challenged our understanding ...

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

Tel Aviv scientists predict ancient radio signals from the early Universe that could reveal how dark matter shaped stars and ...

An MIT astronomy class has found three of the oldest stars in the universe lurking right outside the Milky Way. The stars, about 30,000 light-years from Earth, are in the galaxy's "halo," the cloud of ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally displayed high carbon levels. Astronomers believed that relatively heavier ...

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To find the universe’s oldest stars, you must look for the ones with low chemical abundances and a retrograde orbit. That’s what a group of students in a class of MIT professor of physics and division ...

When the universe's first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times the mass of Earth's sun, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made a significant breakthrough in the field of astronomy by refining the age of the ...