"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

After the Big Bang, the Universe entered a long, dark period before the first stars formed. During this era, hydrogen emitted a faint radio signal that still echoes today. New simulations show this ...

Astronomers believe this barred spiral galaxy could be the oldest example of its kind ever observed. Research led by Daniel ...

The JWST tracks a path right-to-left across the eastern horizon in the hours following sunset in January. On Jan. 19 it will ...

China’s Xuntian space telescope completed a full performance simulation, confirming operational readiness for its planned ...

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Astronomers have found compelling evidence that at least some fast radio bursts originate from stars in binary systems rather than from isolated objects. An international group of astronomers, ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a galaxy being stripped of gas as it moves through the hostile environment of a ...

As the James Webb Space Telescope reveals supermassive black holes are on the move – at two million miles per hour no less – ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange, bar-shaped iron structure within the Ring Nebula, which could be the remains of a ...