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

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 ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

For all the talk about life across the cosmos, Earth remains the only confirmed example. That single data point makes your ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have found the most "pristine" star in the universe to date. According to the team, the gas that formed this star may have come from an elusive "population III" ...

Discovery: An international team has discovered a dark object in the distant universe that has one million times the mass of ...

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 ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...

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

Tatooine may exist in a galaxy far, far away—but its origins are rooted in the real sands of Tunisia, in North Africa.

In a groundbreaking study published inNature Astronomy, astronomers have identified the lowest-mass dark object ever ...