The discovery of a superheated star factory that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way could help solve a ...

One dwarf galaxy seems to consist of nothing but hydrogen and helium, no heavier elements, which is how the universe was ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

The discovery indicates how galaxies could have grown quickly when the universe was very young, solving a long-standing ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered Population III stars, the universe's first generation of stars. They may ...

Astronomers have chased the first stars for decades, squinting at the early universe for any hint of their brief, brilliant ...

Doesn’t seem like much of a brainteaser, does it? Everyone knows the sky darkens at night because the sun sets … or more accurately, because our part of planet Earth rotates away from the sun, and ...

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Massive stars do not live long. There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our ...