Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of physics. In the search for conditions suitable for these elements via ...

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

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

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

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

In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.

In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this artist’s concept. The magnetar’s strong, twisted magnetic field lines (shown in ...

A groundbreaking discovery has shed new light on star formation in the early universe, revealing a galaxy that forms stars at ...

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

Astronomers may have identified the first generation of stars to form after the Big Bang, long-theorized Population III stars ...