Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...
Astronomers say NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have spotted the universe’s first “dark stars,” primordial bodies of ...
The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.
By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...
Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In ...
Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...
A colossal 185,000 light-year-long bridge of neutral hydrogen gas linking two dwarf galaxies, NGC 4532 and DDO 137 ...
Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...
The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe! All hydrogen in the universe appeared in the first few moments of the Big Bang. It is the third most abundant element on the Earth's surface ...
Conditions in mountain ranges outperform rift basins: colder temperatures and ample water circulation along faults allow ...