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

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, ...

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

Long ago, before galaxies formed into shapes we are familiar with today and before planets formed, the earliest stars ignited ...

One dwarf galaxy seems to consist of nothing but hydrogen and helium, no heavier elements, which is how the universe was ...

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.

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, ...

How A Medieval Oxford Friar Used Light And Colour To Find Out What Stars And Planets Are Made Of. During the 1240s, Richard ...

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