Clues to the astrophysical formation of elements can be extracted from diverse sources such as our sun, other stars, deep-sea ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...

Astronomers studying how elements heavier than iron were produced in the early Milky Way have identified a distinct series of epochs of galaxy-wide chemical formation. This evolutionary timeline, ...

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

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

The first generation of stars transformed the universe. Inside their cores, simple hydrogen and helium fused into a rainbow of elements. When these stars died, they exploded and sent these new ...

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

Scientists now believe highly magnetised neutron stars, or magnetars, are a significant source of gold and other heavy ...

A lot is known about galaxies. We know, for instance, that the stars within them are shaped from a blend of old star dust and molecules suspended in gas. What remains a mystery, however, is the ...

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

A computational model of the early-to-present-day Universe predicts that some of the first stars formed in structures that challenge conventional classification. Read the paper: The emergence of ...