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

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

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

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, ...

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

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

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Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication ...

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