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 ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has potentially made a groundbreaking discovery, detecting what could be the universe’s first generation of stars, known as Population III stars. These primordial ...

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

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 ...

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

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...

Astrophysicists have discovered how ‘Galactic snake’, a serpentine-shaped molecular cloud, 9,523 light years away from Earth, is spawning massive stars 1. These stars, eight times heavier than the Sun ...

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