Stevenson 218 is the largest known star in the universe, located about 18,900 light-years away in the constellation of Scutum and far surpassing even the sun in size and brightness. So immense that it ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

The most ‘pristine’ star in the universe discovered by astronomers - Red giant star J0715-7334 is 20,000 times purer than the ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

A star found in the Large Magellanic Cloud is remarkably unpolluted by heavier elements, suggesting it is descended from the ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...

Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found to be much more powerful than gamma-ray bursts, called extreme nuclear ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...