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 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 ...

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

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

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 ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

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 ...