Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's conception (not to scale) of the red giant SDSS J0915-7334, which was born near the Large Magellanic Cloud and has now ...

James Webb data reveal pristine gas irradiated by energetic light some 450 million years after the Big Bang — a sign it may ...

Astronomers have been watching the supergiant WOH G64 for decades – and it might have turned into a hypergiant and be heading ...

Not all archaeologists study ancient pottery and arrowheads. If you’re a stellar archeologist, you seek the oldest stars in the universe—those born long before our own sun and planet came into being.

A group of scientists, including a class of undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, has discovered the most chemically pristine star yet known in the universe. This star dates back to the ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have found the most "pristine" star in the universe to date. According to the team, the gas that formed this star may have come from an elusive "population III" ...

Earlier this year, Euclid—a European telescope tasked to create the largest 3D map of the universe—sent back troves of cosmic data from deep space. Astronomers have since been hard at work picking ...

Studying the star, called SDSS J0715-7334, could give astronomers insights into how the universe's first stars were formed ...

An ancient immigrant: an artist's conception (not to scale) of the red giant SDSS J0915-7334, which was born near the Large Magellanic Cloud and has now journeyed to reside in the Milky Way. Pasadena, ...

The star is the most chemically pristine star ever seen, with barely any heavy elements.

In an ancient dwarf galaxy on the outskirts of the Milky Way, astronomers have discovered one of the most chemically primitive stars ever seen. Named PicII-503, the star’s extreme lack of heavy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M.