Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.

Astronomers might just have peered back to the dawn of starlight-not in a time machine, but through a cosmic magnifying glass ...

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

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

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

How heavy can an element be? An international team of researchers has found that ancient stars were capable of producing elements with atomic masses greater than 260, heavier than any element on the ...

A computational model of the early-to-present-day Universe predicts that some of the first stars formed in structures that challenge conventional classification. Read the paper: The emergence of ...

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

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Earth might seem ancient, but compared to the age of the universe, it’s surprisingly young. Our planet formed about 4.5 […] ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...