Astronomers believe they've discovered some of the universe's earliest stars, located about 13 billion light-years from Earth.

In a significant stride for cosmic evolution studies, astronomers have unveiled a galaxy that is churning out stars at a ...

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

Besides being a point of light, a star is a luminous, spherical mass of plasma, enough to hold itself together under its own gravity. On its own, though, gravitational rounding isn't enough. What ...

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

Theorists have long wondered how massive stars–up to 120 times the mass of the Sun–can form without blowing away the clouds of gas and dust that feed their growth. But the problem turns out to be less ...

A new study suggests that during a potential phase of primordial matter domination, particle interactions may have led to the formation of the universe’s first compact cosmic objects. Less than a ...

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Heavy water detected in the disk of V883 Orionis; chemical signature reveals that some of the water formed before the star ...