A new study sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy and why the life and death of nearby stars are ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy – and why the life and death of nearby stars are ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

The first-ever detection of this rare form of water in a protoplanetary disk suggests that what we drink might have been ...

UNSW expert Professor Yansong Shen explains why it is so important to find a way to produce iron and steel in a more ...

Astronomers have identified the most pristine star ever observed, located in the Milky Way's halo. This ancient star, with ...

The star is known as SDSS J0715-7334. It is a red giant star in the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The metallicity of ...

Astronomers have observed a primeval star that they believe to be the most “pristine” object in the universe. A team led by ...

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

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

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