A recent scientific study has suggested that the first stars in the universe formed in conditions very different from what researchers had long believed. Instead of forming in a cold and quiet ...

Over the course of billions of years, the universe has steadily been evolving. Thanks to the expansion of the universe, we ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...

Astronomers have uncovered more than 400 pairs of star clusters in our Milky Way—cosmic siblings that were born together or ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may have detected the universe's oldest Population III stars in galaxy LAP1-B, 13 billion ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Luke Keller, Ithaca College (THE CONVERSATION) For decades, astronomers have wondered ...

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